Spock Through Glass, or YouTube Nazis

I created this video because I thought it would be a good idea. Then I uploaded it to YouTube, and it was eventually removed. I think it had to do with copyright infringement or something along those lines. As if I were the first to do this sort of thing...
Most of the shots were taken from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. A few were taken from Star Trek IV, notably the scene with Spock talking to his mom.
I'm not sure what first gave me the idea for the video, if it was the question "How do you feel?" or the thing with Spock literally being behind glass. But I built upon the idea and wanted to show some cool footage of a space battle, which made it in there.
My favorite part of this whole video is at 2:45 showing Spock looking remorseful over blowing the engines of the other ship, even though in the movie I don't believe it was his call.

What is usually the case when I edit a video that includes music is that I end up loathing the song after the video is complete because I listen to bits and pieces of the song over and over as I work on completing the final product. Strangely, I still love this song. "Through Glass" by Stone Sour.

Creepy Music

I was out cruising with my friend Andrew when we were last in the same town and we decided to go to the local Salvation Army and enlist. I mean, buy crap.
We were not far into the store when we both heard an eerie chimed music box melody. We both tracked it down and found it to be coming from a porcelain statue of two cardinals sitting on a stick. Disregarding the cardinals, Andrew decided that he must have the music box within. He bought the cheap nicknack only to be disappointed. When he took it home, he unscrewed the base of the statue to remove the music box.
As soon as the box was out of its porcelain housing, the volume of the music greatly diminished. What's more (did I use that phrase in a previous post?), the gears for some reason became sluggish and it sounded as if the batteries were going dead on his walkman.
Before we allowed it to stop playing completely, I promised Andrew I would recompose the tune digitally for his listening pleasure. And that's what I did. I post it here in video form with a creepy-looking hallway made to look like it was shot on really old film. Enjoy.

On a sidenote, when I first heard the music, I envisioned a dark hallway with a little girl in dark clothes standing at the end. When I did a Google image search for "creepy", that was the first image that came up. Unfortunately, the image wasn't very large...

Photo Dump

I dump random photos upon you.

This jet stream cast a neat shadow over the other clouds. Two more to follow.



How often do you find yourself following a horse and buggy down the road? The highway, sure. But in the middle of town, I was trying to figure out if it was ok to pass.


The pile of brush I injured my "little piggies" on. It's a big pile and will take a long while to break down completely.

Bad shape and no Band-Aids

I get dinged up quite a bit. It happens. I'm dangerous. Now what happens when you've got a scrape or two and you can't afford to leave those wounds unprotected but you're fresh out of bandages? You make do.

Got these from breaking down a brush pile over the weekend.

Reluctantly helping my friend move a la Dunken Donuts coffee. Holla if you get the reference.

This is actually a little trick I employed when I was younger because it seemed part of me always needed patched up and I didn't want to use up all of the Band-Aids in the house. I remember using masking tape back when, but duct tape really gives off that DIY vibe.

Getting ready for the all-nighter

The weekend is here - and it feels great! Even though it's only Thursday, myself and several other people who have what my sister once called "a real job" have tomorrow off. What's even greater is that I got off work at 1 PM today. So what am I doing with my time? Let's start a new paragraph.
After work I washed some dishes and did some general tinkering around. Wait, that's not exciting. What's exciting are the plans I have for this evening. I'm driving back to my new house, which I so far haven't really been living in, and I'm going to spend my first night there. Big news stuff, am I right? What's more is I'm going to do my laundry there. Why? Because I can. Duh.
So I'm really looking forward to this. I'm doing a little bit more moving of random junk I've got lying around my room in the house I'm renting. I think I'm going to pick up a pair of rabbit ears to pull in local channels at the new place (no cable or internet there yet) and I'm taking over a shall book shelf/case to set my bedroom tv on. Because you need a bedroom tv.
And then I might have a movie night but go shopping beforehand so I actually have food in the house. That way I can eat something when I wake up. That would be nice.

To make you happy

The last post was decidedly negative. Here are some clouds to cheer you up.

Animals are dumb. Eat them.

So I'm sitting here eating a handful of slices of deer bologna (mmmmmmm.... meat) for an evening snack and I'm thumbing through some photos pondering what I could type up for a new post. Because I can't just type
Hi. Today I woke up at exactly the same time I woke up everyday. Then I went to work like every other day. Then I came home from work. Then I did some usual after-work activities. Then I posted a blog entry. Now I am going to bed. Goodnight world.
Actually, that post wasn't half bad. Could use some explosions and a fast car and I think I've got a movie deal on my han-
I'm getting off track. Meat. Right. Animals. Dumb. Ever since I started driving I have had a hate for deer. Their stupidity bothers me. You slam on your brakes, and they stand there. If they were on the side of the road, they are now crossing in front of you because naturally you are letting them cross safely out of the kindness of your heart.
If you honk at them, their ears perk up as they wonder where the sound is coming from, assuming that obviously the noise is not directed at them. If you flash your lights, they stop in the middle of the road and stare (hence, deer in the headlights). If you honk and flash your lights, they slowly strut across the street because I think that they think they're so high and mighty and that loud, bright thing wouldn't dare touch a hair on its innocent little body.
Guess what Bambi, even our government might protect you with a few little laws, but there is one little exception.

Here are some pictures of other animals being stupid.

This squirrel was a moron. I caught him climbing my window.

Then he fell off the window and just stared at me. Because he was a moron.

This was later the same day. Could be the same squirrel. Or not.

This stupid goldfinch was repeatedly trying to fly through the closed window. Repeatedly.

Stupid comes in two's. These mates hung on this chain pecking for food. No food on the chain! Stupid birds.