Monday, July 30, 2012

Ghosts, Vampires, and Werewolves... oh my!

Original title, I know. So I'm back (I've been back for a while, but that doesn't matter) and I've been trying to find ways to pass the time. I'm getting ready for Bristol and Wizard World (I'm going as a female Hawkeye and my friend is going as a female Loki) and I've stumbled into the awesome side of YouTube and Netflix!
I've watched Never Mind the Buzzcocks before and I've gotten back in and it's fantastic! Noel Fielding is absolutely brilliant every episode! I've just watched the Doctor Who special and I couldn't stop laughing. I really recommend watching an episode or two because it is bloody brilliant!
Another show that I've stumbled upon (this one is on Netflix) is That Mitchell and Webb Look. I love David Mitchell so much and Robert Webb is hysterical. Some of the sketches are dull and really stupid, but there are a few that are fantastic! My favorites are "Kill the Poor" and "Casino Royal". I don't know if that's the actual names, but it's the ones on YouTube.
And the last series that I am quickly becoming addicted to is Being Human (the UK version). It's about a  ghost named Annie, a werewolf who's such a sweetie named George, and a sensitive (and extremely attractive) vampire named Mitchell. I love all the twists and turns and I've only watched the first 5 episodes. I have found my Lleu, Lugus, and Diamaid for Captain Bones and Her Crew (if it becomes a movie) in the show! I love this series sooo much! Please, if you have the chance, go check it out! After I finish as much as Netflix has on the UK version, I'm going to see how different the US version is. Might as well.
Also really quickly, I just finished reading Hero by Perry Moore and it was freaking amazing. It's about time a gay kid who wants to be a superhero get's his story told! Loved it so much! If you have a chance to read it, do!
That's pretty much it! Enjoy the week!
Doodle of the Day:
This was my trial on PaintTool Sai. It was the first time I used it (before I left) and I like it, but for my realistic stuff, I'm going to stay on Corel Painter Essentials 4.
-Cheers!

Monday, July 16, 2012

San Francisco and Canopy Beds

Okay so I'm back from my week long trip to San Francisco and it was the best! There were 19 different choirs from all over the globe and it was eye opening. I made so many friends from Connecticut to the Democratic Republic of Georgia. And there were comic shops and more importantly, GHIRARDELLI CHOCOLATE!! I got a big bag of dark chocolate. ^-^ I was a very happy camper.
So some of the people I met were Irina (from Georgia), Morgan (he was from Connecticut), and another Meredith from Australia. All of them were super nice and really cool to talk to. I'm keeping in touch with them so that's awesome. But they all look so young! I thought Irina and Morgan were my age, but they're  seniors in high school. And I thought Meredith was a junior or senior in high school, but no. She's 23 and married. Everyone look so much younger than they actually were (except for this German kid that looked older, but he was actually my age) and apparently our choir looked older!
But more importantly than all the people and trying to guess ages, I got to know the girls in my choir a lot better. I had a chance to talk to some of the seniors more as well as the juniors. Not to mention I got to know the 8th graders more too. I knew the other sophomore and freshies before (I was rooming with them) and I got to experience how immature they were. It got to the point of me moving to another room because of it. But anyway, there are so many cool girls in my choir that I didn't know because I was so used to only talking with the people I was comfortable with. It turns out that they're the annoying ones.
Off of the San Francisco trip and in other news, I'm going to (hopefully) be getting a canopy bed! Yay! The only problem is that I found one I really like for $170, but my parents aren't convinced. Here's the link to the bed! Does have it or know some one who does? And if so, do you/ would they suggest it? 170 seems pretty low for a nice canopy bed frame and I've read the bad reviews (as well as the good). Anything will help thanks!
Doodle of the Day:
Here are the characters for the Crystaline story/comic I'm developing! I tried using Marvel style on this one, but they looked wrong. I'm just going to do it in my style and if it does become a legit comic, what ever company will have to suck it up, because this is how they look. Done.
That reminds me, I got into a few comic series and I highly suggest all of them. (namely Wild Children (one shot comic), The Runaways (Marvel), and the Adventure Time comics aren't bad as well.)
-Cheers!