I've got the spirit

5:13PM - On Edgar Wright Films

"I think Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are such a great duo, I'd watch anything with them. Even a porno where they're fucking each other. It'd still be equally dynamic and funny."

-Me, speaking on Hot Fuzz.

6:45PM - Class Impressions

Classical Literature: Half of it will be spent re-reading the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid. Other half on ancient plays and Plato. Neat. Also, good to have two people in the class I know. I shall enjoy this class.

Human Origins: Seems interesting, work load seems annoying. Ah well.

Logic: My teacher looks like Rivers Cuomo.

Intro to Professional Writing: Sadly, the thing I'm interested in most from this class, which is writing genre or stories for employers interest (seeing as I want to write comics and will most likely be writing for characters I do not own nor create myself, and will be at the mercy of editors) will be the least covered topic in class. Mostly memos and reports and business documents I don't care about. Yay core requirements.

Cultural Geography = Fascinating material, interesting professor. He's from Trinidad and has a creole accent and seems really nice and funny.

Overall, I think my workload is less than last semester, but we'll see.

5:50PM - Life Updates

What's been up? Hrm.

Hannukah = Good. Got cash, it went to booze, gas, food, Okami (Wii) and Fire Emblem (DS). Both are addicting and frustrating and doomed to ruin my school grades. Oh well, all in good fun.

christmas = My first one! With Aubrey and her families. Very fun got to stay over her house and unrap presents under the tree. Aubrey got me some Sherlock Holmes books (one of them being a second edition Hound of the Baskervilles!!) and a Batman philosphy book. She's too awesome. :) I got her a very pretty and for my income (which is nothing) expensive necklace. I'm a pretty neat boyfriend, not gonna lie.

New Years = Held a Murder Mystery party. Lotsa fun, if not full of plotholes cause it was all last-minutely prepared.

Currently = Few days left of break, not ready to go back to GVSU. I don't care for college, it's decent and I occasionally learn interesting things, but I've got more important things to do at home. One step at a time...

Music = Got the band back together for some practice, went much better than expected. Recording some side project, Guided By Voices-esque stuff with Matt. Going by interesting, good to see I can still drum, kind of.

Writings = Got some comic/story ideas to work on, involving the Revolutionary War if America lost and was split into many provinces. Might even make a good RP for over the summer. Also writing some more poetry, will post when it's decent. Gotta start submitting stuff to publications, get my name out there. Want to look into interships this summer.

Work = Didn't happen. Broke because of it. My time at Zap Zone is over with, it's official. I cannot return over summer vacation, it's time to move on finally.

School = Why must it start? Not looking forward to much. Classical Literature might prove interesting. Human Life, Geography, logic and into to professional writing will take up the rest of time.

Other = Looking forward to Ohayocon in Columbus starting Januwary 29th. Going as Jason Todd and Moist from Dr. Horrible. Aubrey's coming (her first con!) as Rogue. Gonna be loads of fun.

Okay I should go back to playing Okami. Wow this was long.

Peace my honey bunches of oats.

10:33AM - on coffee consumption

Shaun): the church says the body is a temple
Shaun: clearly yours is a starbucks
Aubrey: HAHAHAHAAHAHHAAH

12:26AM - You Not Hungry for Poem, You Hungry For HOT POCKET

My Epic.

I'm singing a song that has no motivation
an epic tale with no sycopation
there's no hero's but there's also no villains
except me, me and most of all me

I'm here to express my thoughts in a kind of comedy
the Greek kind with humor that no one understands but me
The gods would be pleased i'm sure
as long as i preformed a sacrifice in turn


The time is ripe it's ready for the picking
it grew from a tree untouched by mortals, unflinching
i'm the first and i'll taste it's fruits
the labors are bitter but the product is sweet

If I could grab an axe or a sword
and fight dragons and win maidens I would
but instead i'll tell a tale someday
and hope that when it's done
the princess i have will
lay down with me
and...

10:35PM - Quick poem.

Splendid.

splendid dreams
what do i see?
hell and demons maybe
but there will always be a light

okay sometimes you know how you feel when you let down your hair and the wind pulls it away
the places you'll go oh the places you'll go

i'd light my hair on fire so it could burn as bright as yours
but i think i'm better off just basking in the warmth
i could fuel these thoughts with gasoline
but i'd like to believe that i'm better off with make believe

from your hair my eyes meet with yours
and they go right past there to your brain
if i could send you a telepathic message
i wonder if you'd slap me or hug me all the same
and if i could light my mind with a sparkling beam
i wonder if it'd still be better to leave it to dreams

okay sometimes you know how you feel when you take the day off to run amongst the grass
the places you'll go oh the places i'll follow

9:29PM - Spoken-Word

Mm. Pumpkin spiced ale and shoegaze music.

'Tis the sights and smells and sounds of fall.

Current mood: quixotic

Current music: The Spinanes - Punch Line Loser | Powered by Last.fm

9:42PM - Sk8 or DIE

Let's commence the new school year, right?

List/impressions:

MWRF - Japanese 201
Great not having to travel downtown to get to class, Robinson seems like a good guy, but possibly harsh grader. We're currently reviewing the last few lessons of JPN 102, and while I can remember words, grammar points and Kanji OK, I can't really piece together a single sentence. This'll be fun. Major studying required. :\

MWF - Roman Civilization
Very nice, funny teacher. VERY interesting course. For a Gen Ed requirement, I'm satisfied with this. Rome and it's ancient culture has always fascinated me, and this class seems like it'll go by pretty nicely.

TR - Brit Lit
Oh boy for having this at 8:30AM. But class was cancelled this morning and with Labor Day cutting Tues classes I don't return till next Thursdays. We'll be reading some interesting stories for sure, like Canterbury Tales & Beowulf, and getting some nice history lessons along with the texts. Like the sacking of Rome, the Aglo/Saxon invasion and such. I'm gleefully in tune, but I know I'd rather take the next level (if it exists) where there'd be a focus on the Victorian era. I crave me some Dickens, Doyle, Stoker, Wells & Wilde.

T - Advanced Fiction
Well, this is what I'm here for. Lots of fiction stories to write, a shit-ton to read, and a review to be made on just about eveything. Like Intermediate almost exactly but well, advanced. Happy to share the class with some familiars from last year, It'll certainly help. I'm feeling very creative right now, but mostly with genre writing, and I know it's frowned apon in this class, but they can all deal with it. If I'd rather write about pirates and cowboys than coming-of-ages and modern realistic people, so be it.

TR - Psychology 101
Another Gen Ed, but another ineteresting one. Been meaning to take this one for awhile, and it's mostly lecture, which pleases me. I tire of having to speak up and discuss for credit, and I won't be needing to that in this class.

So far everything seems slow, but I know it is merely the calm before the storm.

Out of class, my room is an awesome showcase of geekdom. 5 video game systems, a shelf dedicated to games and DVDs, action figures decorated in every corner, a kick ass roomate (that would be Mr. Dan Sills) and all my music with me. Downloaded Mixcraft 4, gonna see if I can learn to re-mix and sample, make some nerdcore raps while Tim (my band) is on a practicing break.

Much Love,
~Coke West

Current mood: creative

Current music: Lupe Fiasco - The Emperor's Soundtrack | Powered by Last.fm

11:56PM

I submitted a story to FML. Let's hope it makes it onto the site.

12:03PM - It was awesome, by the way.

SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE

2:28PM

New Business. Mad Gear dubs over Wolverine and the X-Men.

If this goes over well, we'll be sure to abuse more episodes.

Enjoy or else.

1:16PM - Better than ever.

Here's my report on ACen 2009.



That about sums it up.

5:44PM - Maybe in the Next Life

I have two papers, one due Tuesday, one due Wednesday (with rough draft due tomorrow). Two group projects, one due Thursday, the other due sometime next week.

I have a Japanese test tomorrow.

The last thing I should have done this weekend was slacked off, went on random drives, stayed up all night looking up random nerdy information on the wikipedia and read comic reviews and looked at overly expensive action figures (see shaun still likes toys)

The last thing I should have done today was napped, watched bad movies on TV and continue to procrastinate.

Oh well, it's only life.

9:28PM - This Charming Man

I love life because I love the Avengers.

I hate life because I have two group projects and two or three papers and a test all in the next week.

These two thoughts are completely unrelated, but I think they counter-balance each other out well enough.

Also on the happy love life side of things:
MORRISSEY CONCERT TOMORROW.

Feel free to not comment. Have a sextastic day.

10:01PM - this is SO stream of conciousness

goddamnit what the fuck

fuckin shit fuck shit shitty this town/campus is so mcfuckstick boring

my brain is going to snap. where's a girl to have a drink and talk about Kerouac with? OR HOW ABOUT X-MEN?

YEAH.

(this post is NOT brought to you by: any substances. honest.)

8:32PM - Night Owl is not Batman.

Why do so many comic book nerds not like the Watchmen movie?

Sure it wasn't frame-by-frame perfect and most of the music choices sucked, but I thought it was pretty great overall.

Clearly I'm not jaded enough.

*shrug*

6:31PM - I'm addicted

FotC best show on TV. Ever.

In other words: Spring Break should immediately turn into Summer Break so Mad Gear can put on some shows.

That is all. Feel free to not comment.

Current mood: geeky

Current music: Flight of the Conchords - Business Time

7:20PM - Also in Existance

Had a crappy Valentine's Day? WATCH THIS.

Had a great Valentine's Day? WATCH THIS ANYWAYS.


A Coke West Valentine


Weeeeeee.

Current mood: Wizard-Like

Current music: Guided By Voices - Salty Salute

4:43PM - Only slightly belated

Watch! Mad Gear 4 Life!

Next vid: Friday the 13th 2009 (Next weekend!)

Also possible: Coke West's Valentine's Day

Current mood: Glorious

Current music: Pulp - Mile End

5:21PM - We wanna get loaded and have a good time. An' that's what we're going to do!

There's an image from Morrissey's latest single of him and his band naked, junk only covered by 7" records.

Link here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/148821-morrissey-naked-nsfw

This picture would've worked better if taken in 1987. Otherwise, well. Umm. At least Moz's in shape.

Further proof I need to stop wishing I was in England:

Primal Scream's Screamadelica may well be one of the finest things these ears have ever heard. Pulp's This is Hardcore is also great, I like it better than Different Class, oppose to most other reviewers/critics it seems. I think the mood and gloom exemplifies Jarvis' wit phenomenally.

Also, Jarv needs to write a book. I'd have sex with a book written with his whims in tow.

Not-U.K. things:

My 20 paper story has been critiqued. It went by fairly well, most people complimented me on my plot (saying it was a page turner, even to those who don't care for noir fiction) Some people liked my dialogue, others didn't. Consensus is I need more descriptions with scenery and more motives for my lead. Will work on that before end of semester. Will post a few of the current parts I liked soon. [Actually this story takes place in London, so I guess it is British in a way. Oops.]

Next story, I intend on writing a short one, using exaggerated versions of myself and a few friends involving the death of one. Very much based on true events and situations. This could get heavy, but probably not. Our personalities negate such things, especially when taken with a grain of salt.

Feeling the dead of winter aches and blues. Need more stimulation. Story writing takes priority, but in the midst of this two weeks of nearly non-stop snow, I don't feel like doing much of anything. Sometimes too depressed too move. Still have not skipped a class yet, pretty proud of that. My skin is dry and I wish I could get rid of it like a snake.

I need to sing my heart out. Literally. Cough it out on stage as I sing. A few drinks and friends would suffice, though.

I think I'm done blabbing for now. Go watch Charlie Brown if you haven't. Leif Erikson Day 2008 can't be uploaded yet cause Youtube's new copyrighting rules are a bitch.