Yeah, Well My Bloggage Doesn't Try To Kill Me Every Five Minutes...

Just a quick update, since it's 3 in the morning and I'm out early tomorrow!

September's been quiet... A little *too* quiet. Frankly, I find the whole business shady and disturbing. Like something big is going down...

I've been relatively workless lately, which is very unfortunate given my new apartment a) costs slightly more per month to live in, b) needed some new equipment purchased, like a fridge, and c) had half a month's extra security deposit required. So without that extra income, I'm pressuring my bank account hardcore, and it's NOT _ LIKING _ IT.

Applied to a job yesterday for the web series "Ask A Ninja." They wanted a comedy writing sample in addition to the standard resume/cover-letter, so I dumped them my old Christian Bale rant script, then threw together the sloppiest, least professional cover letter I've ever written. In the style of a ninja, of course. The idea was that rather than being a boring 20-something looking for work, I was a fanatical ninja maniac who happened to have a sharp grasp of comedy. Judging from the way they didn't ever call me, I'm thinking my plan sorta failed. >_<

I'm keeping quite busy with a few side projects, one being editing a new comedy series for a college friend who just started a deal up with a New York humor blog. I also issued the same challenge to my roommate that I tried to push a year ago: shooting one new film every single weekend, in order to keep sharp and productive at all times. Not that either of us are neither of those things; we're both insanely crafty and diligent, but I figure if we're not using our skills to put out new material for the world, then we're SQUANDERING OPPORTUNITY! So better to rush through film after film and keep cranking out projects than to do a lot of talking and never really accomplish anything physical. However, that means time spent on great things like writing and developing will be much harder to find. :/ Maybe we'll make a trade-off for that later. Our first film, HANS GETS THE KICK, is just nearing completion now.

I do hope I get the inspiration to resume animating soon. As much as I need money and as many projects as I have to edit, I really want to see solid and effective progress made in my cartoons, especially since finishing just one more -- especially THIS one -- will likely push me over the edge to start getting some credible attention paid. To go fully serious, I'll need to pay for a real animator, I think... but for now, I just have to prove that I'm BANKABLE in directing great stories with these characters. And, fortunately, the only hinderance to proving I'm bankable is the physical (tedious) process of completing enough cartoons. :/ I know the work is good, every time.

^Most arrogant statement of my life.

You guys own a Wii? I like mine. It's good fun. But I've recently found it has a problem with erasing my GameCube memory cards. Not erasing, actually, but corrupting data. It's really, really obnoxious, particularly in that it's now corrupted data on 3 of my 4 cards (2 being Nintendo's own brand). Twice, the cards affected have been my STORE EVERYTHING cards (i.e. the most spacious models), so that equates to an awful lot of game saves that have gone down the tubes a few too many times. And frankly, if I can't keep my game data from session to session, then a lot of games are no fun to play at all. -_- I'm hoping that turning my Wii on its side will prevent heat from escaping out the top (and thereby corrupting the cards?). I'll let you know if I find an improvement with it set on its side.

TIME TO GO.