Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

I’d wonder whether anyone’s ever done the soundtrack equivalent for Americans. Like when we show up in the movie there’s a little twangy guitar motif with the vocalist singing GUUUUNS MAHHHH TRUCCKKK, and then we’re back to the normal soundtrack.

and then a little baritone chorus theme lets you know Something Russian is happening in the movie

A nice glass of tea? Horrible totalitarian regime? Submarine diving? Cats in snow? Liberally dumping dill on your pelmeni? Doesn’t matter, it gets baritone chorus.

oh FSCK yeah KEXP played my third favorite Cure song!

* Pacific Rim theme blasts *

By the time tanks, jets and missiles defeated the enormous corn, three cities were lost. And then only six months later the enormous green beans hit Manila. And then we learned this wasn't going to stop, this was just the beginning. To fight giant vegetables, we created giant vegetables of our own. The Jolly Green Giant program was born.

oh YEAH Ohio's state song!

https://youtu.be/9B4STUYsLig?si=RGYOzZdiHBXeUCZq

"I wonder if this video will tell me more about whether I have ADHD or not?" they thought, leg going at high speeds and setting the video to 1.5x regular speed because these things take half of forever if you run them normally

#drawing today, since it’s spooky season (or no longer spooky season). Partly inspired by a favorite Samurai Jack episode. Initially this was gonna have undead in that funky looking Nara looking stuff and then I thought it was WAY better suggested.

made mushroom gravy over bok choy and rice, currently eating, and this Palestinian okra stuff which is gonna go with vegan feta and maybe chick pea soup later this week

Talk Like a Pirate Day continues with the soundtrack (suite) for The Sea Hawk with Errol Flynn. So far I’ve resisted the urge to jump on my desk possibly because I don’t actually have a foil with me and cannot execute a low line sweeping parry, but next up is the suite for The Adventures of Don Juan, and then I might really be in trouble.

OH THEY CALLS ME HANGIN’ JOHNNY
AWAY BOYS AWAY
THEY SAYS I HANGS FER MONEY
OH HANG BOYS HANG
OH THEY SAYS I HANGS FER MONEY
AWAY BOYS AWAY
CAUSE HANGING IS SO FUNNY
OH HANG BOYS HANG

… wait where’re you going, I got at least 7 more verses!

Combining the Cutthroat Island soundtrack with this miserably long slog through what’s normally an okay task has me alternating “sad” with “want to fence against someone.” Like I miss doing foil rather than saber, how often does that happen?

Actually THE best thing to say for “Talk like a pirate day” is “had you but fought like a man, dear Jack, you would not now need to die like a dog.” Second best historical witticism ever imho.

* blasts Korngold*

RUN OUT THE STARBOARD GUNS, MISTER BELLAMY! WE’LL WAKE THEM WITH A WHIFF OF GRAPESHOT IN THE MORNING!

and 25 minutes or so later

POWER BREEDS PARASITES
LONG LIVE ANARCHY

Listening to Schostakovich Sym 11, a sure sign of being in a sunny mood especially about living in a worker’s paradise with great foreign policy.

A weird combination of ancestral pride and ancestral SHAME combines with the current war to dearly want a future where Ukraine’s run by Ukrainian assholes, not Russian assholes… that is if none of us get to have anarchosocialism.

I ride on the bus into the city every day
sit on the bench and I dream my life away
I dream I'm on an island with that sexy lady too
when I'm awaken
I must be mistaken
I'm on Third Avenue
Won't you take me away,
and take away me?
Won't you take me away,
and take away me?

I wish when my brain spews I WISH I WERE A BETTER ARTIST while awake early, it were less "I'm scared that if people don't absolutely love me I'm vulnerable to harm (reflects crap childhood, not really true)" and more "I want to work on X technical problem (lighting, composition, portraits etc)"

fortunately I think I know what the actual technical thing is

takeaways from work from home again;

* I can't get my work PC to recognize my monitor as a separate display, so some tasks are slower than at the office

* I'm great when there's lots of work, but if work slows motivation and energy plunge. Getting outside during lunch break is probably more useful than napping during lunch break.