Relative Dimension

I can't have happy endings anymore. But it was a good ending all the same, and I loved it. It just wasn't very happy. And it won't leave me alone.

I want to be the Pirate King, and I want to wear that outfit.

My yesterday was all about the pirate love. I made the most kick-ass POTC vid that I can't get enough of, then abandoned my traditional new year's movie to have a Pirates marathon until three in the morning. I analyzed those movies in ways nobody ever has. And I noticed, for the first time, that the cinematography is just beautiful. And also a lot of foreshadowing in the second one.

My video is to Flogging Molly's "Seven Deadly Sins" and I don't normally like to brag, but I think I outdid myself. Even though the song is very short, it was hard to make because it moves so damn fast. But it was wicked fun.

My dad has an old handheld scanner that I thought I might be able to use to scan my drawings easier. There turned out to be two problems: 1) the software seems to have left this world, and 2) it won't plug into my computer without an adapter. It also might not be wide enough to get all of some drawings. I guess I'll just have to put up with the grey stripe as long as I'm drawing in a book. Yesterday I drew Angela Basset and I used so much graphite on her hair I hit it with a fixative as soon as I was finished ... I think I may have used a little too much. I only use the stuff when I have a really super-graphited drawing because it's possibly carcinogenic (at least in California) and the lighter drawings don't smudge against the opposite page so there's no need to spray them.

Sam comes home in one week and his plane is supposed to get in sometime around 8 in the morning (we think), which means I'll be getting up in the neighborhood of oh-god-thirty. He's also demanding that we take him to Chipotle's as soon as humanly possible. I can't imagine he's had a decent burrito in about ten months. And I will be surprised if we aren't having pizza for dinner that night. I hope the shirt I got fits him.

One of the reasons I was so keen to see the midnight showing of PotC is that as late as it is, it's unlikely there will be many small children there. I'm guessing much of the audience will be people around my age, who can stay up that late. And hopefully this trip to the theater won't involve the people in the row behind us putting their feet on the seats and acting stupid. There was a group several rows behind us who, by the sound of their conversation, I would definitely get along with (they sounded like fellow geeks). I would rather have sat in front of them. (Or joined them.) Anyway, I hope there are lots of people there. Movies are fun with a full audience.