Daniel Orta
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Writing like a madman
Mar 2nd
There’s been four different things I’ve been writing as of late, which have been taking up my time.
For one, there’s my paper on a really badly written study on video game violence done on Dutch kids. It’s oddly amusing for them to attempt to find something out of all these kids when 70% percent of them don’t even play video games. (I’ll post the title of the paper later, if anyone is interested)
Second, is a paper on Stalin in his pre-WWII period. Saw an interesting documentry on it done by PBS, which at times was dry, but amazing at others. I wish I had the title to.
Desperate Keenwives is nearing the end, and I want to finish it so I don’t have to worry about it anymore and have it waste my time. It’s almost to around 50 pages. It’s my first real attempt at a novel format (I’ve had people comment that the dialouge is fresh while everything else is dry, so
Oh, and my review on junkRIOT, which will probably be delayed. DAMMIT.
So yeah, its been long and tedious here. I can’t wait till Friday, when I’ll turn in both papers.
And I REALLY need to fix this livejournal up. It’s too drab right now.
On the Anastasi music video…
Feb 20th
So as expected, I’ve been lagging behind in the work i need to do.
Mom suddenly forbid me to go anywhere (Yeah, I’m 18 and I still have to ask my mom to go places. What fucking fun, no?) and thus, the Anastasi videos are stuck at my house, sitting on the desk.
Shiit.
I’ll try reviewing the video later today, and see if I can pull out a decent idea of what I’m gonna do with the videos.
The basic idea I have is to cut them up into three small music videos and have little bits of other things that happened onstage (announcement of the winners, finalists, yadda yadda) and throw them up on google video for the myspace folks.
That brings up the idea of compression. Don’t wanna lose the music, but the picture quality as it is SUCKS.
I used a six year old video camera for crissakes.
I’ll have to look through the video tonight once Taylor’s video camera charges.
Lagging….
Feb 15th
Somehow, I’m lagging behind on all the work I have to do. Seriously, I am. Sick for one day off of school, and guess what, I’m down three homework assignments for my Precal class.
Shit on a stick. I’m not even halfway done with my review of Green Avenger. I’m gonna have to pull it back.
Well, I do have one small announcement, to say in the least. I’ll be joining a webcomics collective as… well, a writer (I don’t know if I can carry Blue Eyed Devil with me yet) in Cortland’s new collective.
HOOOOOO!
Oh, and I might be posting the Desperate Keenwives series here with some new stuff. Can’t wait.
When a CD goes the Hoffa way.
Feb 11th
Yeah, I was beginning to work on Purgatory. It was going to be interesting, really. I’ve gotten to build only Laurel and Death so far, and I needed the CD to prepare the houses that I want to build. So I look for the CD for The Sims 2 Nightlife, and whoopty doo, its gone the way of the dodo bird. I can’t find it anywhere. Friggin great.
So now, I’m installing Daemon tools to mount fake CD images to get it to run. Might let the game run faster, considering that it won’t have to load from a CD every time I go into build mode (the site GameBurnWorld.com helps tremendously. Recommended for any serious gamer.). So now,
Taylor finally saw the script. He was laughing over and over again as I acted out certain scenes for him while driving to burbank (to pick some stuff up for his band- Think Alike. I’m posting new songs of theirs on Teammayhem.net REALLY soon.) and instilled in me once again the joy of writing comedy.
Been moody as of late. Dunno why.
oh well.
time to get back to work. That’s probably where I’m happiest, really.
Oh look, I have a livejournal…
Feb 6th
and I’m such a whore.
Hello there, my name is Daniel. I’m 18 and I live in the city known as Lost Angeles (you’d be too with all the damn freeways you have to memorize. All I remember is the only one that goes through my town, the 210 freeway, and the 110 freeway, the freeway that’s all so curvy and gets you sick if you try to read a book on while riding) and
I’m known to most people as teammayhem, a webcomics reviewer (well, not most people. I’m joking myself there.), posting at Korsil Webcomic Reviews.
I have a livejournal for a couple of reasons:
- I’m a whore.
- I’ve wanted a place where I can bitch about all the different projects (Team Mayhem, Korsil, etc) in one place.
- At least it isn’t a deadjournal. (then again, I’m considering getting one to mock the nutjobs that are on there)
So I’m here for good. Tonight, I have to go fix a computer that my sister almost wrecked with a virus. And my family has the balls to blame me for it.
Great. Just great.