Pastiche of Life

Hey there long time no tips, talk or review

I’m back an in my boredom tonight I was playing around with my new precision screwdriver set. Having to buy a new set after stripping out my heads recovering a bunch of faulty seagate drives.

I noticed when taking apart drives that there’s some useful bits and pieces you can salvage. Normally I just toss them if I’m placing the plates into a new casing the heads being useless after wards. But are they

- How to make a keyholder:

Pic (a) shows the magnet attached to the drive arm this normally with the carve running through the copper coils helps the positioning of the read head and as you can see in pic (b) there are some screw points letting you easily mount this magnet to a board the curved head a perfect match as you can see in pic (c) for a loop in my keychain.

- Bottle opener for the desperate alcaholic

The drive arm itself as you can see in pic (d) has the typical bottle opening head not the perfect tool the copper is soft enough to bend from regular use

Hi, If you know me you’ll know i got fascinated with Mystery Science theatre 3000 years ago and the Gentlemen that provided so many laughs over the years have been back for a while with their Newer project RIFFTRAX, I heartily recommend you dig through your DVD collection for that one horrible movie you never want to see again and find the suitable riff track for it. it will be most assuredly worth your while.

Until you do here is a Set of liner notes i did last week when i was bored watching The tuxedo followed by Halloween Resurrection. Out of context only some of it retains its humour and if i had the tiem i would go and record the whole thing but since I’m a busy working man nowadays you will simply just have to take the word as law.

Now remember check out http://www.rifftrax.com/ for some professional Riffs its all good all the time ^_^

Halloween Resurrection

Light end of the tunnel just a freight train coming your way.
Exposition exposition… H20 recap and mike lives again murder same 
person twice . An un-killable mute  apparently makes good strategic 
decisions…
Come and get me jackass.
"anyone out there" you sir just commuted suicide, Halloween Gacy… 
Real vs fiction.
One two mullets coming for you… Wrong movie doofus
Twinkie of doom
Strangled scream = investigate alone
P.S.A – don’t ride the spin cycle kids.
Mike has phenomenal upper body strength yeah he does one arm chin ups 
all day
Mouth breather!
My idol! Sign my mask?
Here he comes death by albino Shatner
Obviously not in bed. My sisters head is apparently a pillow
Curtis wins rabbit trapality.
You walk into every trap?
Yes actually your getting freaky Jamie
I’m miming a migraine
Wow those chin ups really helped.
Say hi to Freddy and Jason for me!
Statistics by Guinness book of records!
It lives!!!!! … Again
We deny the existence of this
Mike Myers likes Denali…I suppose carrying a kitchen knife you tend to chop alot just to pass time
Iron chef mike
Baby chair of evil!
Nigras in the hizzouse? 4chan would be so proud
Okay means at this party the pool is closed.
Yeah using someone’s home computer at a party… Social no no unless 
your in the movie hackers then it’s plot necessity
Mikes mouth breathing is putting me off…
Ummm.. Well suppose that can become a social thing… What big 
brothers back on?
Critical studies teaches you scatological theory if anything taking it 
up the butt could become a preoccupation
Large groups plus Internet someone’s demanding to see a PoWnEd video.
Ah spare masks that’s where he kept them
That is one bitchin media set up… I personally go for projectors….
Ohhh mikey doesn’t quite like keeping inside the lines.
WTF a cruciform pacifier… Mike had a right to lose it.
Oh this is resident evil now…all we need is an eagle crest!
Or his parents loved a bit of slap tickle and branding.
Bookie in the dirty dark playpen now that’s entertainment. Ohhh she 
gives great mind jobs too…..mmmm
Dammmmnnnn! Taiwan you bastards! Taking all the prop department jobs! 
Outsourcing is a bitch
Mike looks so surprised. Hmmm yeah busta I have nothing to say maybe 
dayyyym but that’s not worth it
Kill it kill it with fire… Oh it’s busta rhymes… We don’t need 
fire the way he’s eating the scene it’ll implode on his dialogue… 
Reaching critical mass on the mofo’s
Mike calls him mr pipeeye (Slaps for Bad punnage)
And he’s called brunch… Wow how avant guard rodent et fennel.
Those at home playing the home game that’s murder…
And this is drugs…
Hmmm kay…psa be dammed…
Tonight michael we are cheech and chong
Daown… He channelled arnie’s Ghost there….Ghost?…. Yes the Ghost of his respectibility
Yes stop the cameras turn them off let’s go home.
Wow you were watching in silence till now? That’s avid attention
Sadly that was for Dr horrible. Ohhh human screams are like kettles.
On no this old door and windows are impenetrable
There’s upper body strength…
There’s a head like a ripe grapefruit
Why does he breath so heavy
Let’s go ginzu on his ass.  Mighty chef vs iron mike
I always keep a spare right… Oh yeah here.
Wooo! A.R.G. time folks! Fuck lonleygirl
Meta when your watching people scream at a tv you have gone to far out
Hmmm interesting tactic head first
Ahhhhhh! Guy I don’t know!
Because boldjng and caps didn’t slow him down warning her
Www dead guy at my crotch
Busta you scare me most of all
Busta angry, busta Kung fool, busta fail
Now kill it kill it! We know what is going to happen.
Yeah yeah B. Least Decker remembered to keep an eye
Think all the upper body workout has his neck inclusive
Stage 1 raise knife
Stage 2 pause
Stab repeat
I’m still focusing on his cooking why keep spices upstairs if he has 
everything underground… Give it a rest that’s for movie theorists of 
another generation to discuss. What the culinary motif of slasher films?
Yes the ghost of scream and popcorn. Mike and fennel I could go on…
Bludgeoning via chainsaw?
Mike doing hi undertaker impression
Serrated blade for pleasure
Vistas back… Yay
Yes! B yes.
His balls the one weak spot never exploited
Balls + electrify…. 20 years and that’s what finishes it?
Yes he is yes he is… All still very true
Like your mom!… That was unneeded
Ummm… He’s dead right? Right?… Like he can’t be done can he?

Ahh!!!!!! 
eyes!!!!!

The Tuxedo

Deer pee
Waterbag death P.S.A. Young children and Nameless characters shouldn’t play with plastic bags
Don’t like his hair. (water dehydration death)
Flame retardant (burn baby burn)
Nice rack (ignored joke)
Jennifer love hewitt is irritating.
Spiderman (1960 version) followed by an over the top wall slide
Running . Lemasse breathing to cope?
Hahahahaha! Fucking hewitt up! Wooo!
Gunrange guys are win.
"I miss you"? What ? he didn’t like her at the top of the flick
What? Oh fuck he fucked up James brown! Hahahahah..aha…ha…no! 
Don’t ruin it you stupid movie, don’t do it Jackie stop the butt dance!
Blondes love a jiggily ass criminal masterminds do not this is a truism.
Cheryl…something…? "long streak of love"
Into my lab and play… Glorious wet play.
Jennifer in the pool panty shot
"her voice reminds me of my mother"
Walking through the party with a canister of gatourade

comming through!!!!!- does it all look like pee?
Doctor simms and tequila? Biochemists know how to party.
Security don’t mind intruders long as they leave no trace
Supercriminals love to boogie
Waltr styder – water strider
Simms + tequila = talkitive and not very good at simple research.
Hatchery door  + mermaid huh?
Cigarettes save the day.
Never drink the strider at the bottom the hangover is a killer.
Is this how senators get a date?  So many questions stream of  conciousness mimic and layer.
Meh you tried dude no waste of cash here
Love hewitt has no right to be humble and girl next doorsy…wait what 
constipated…happy or horny? Hmm provocative
Jackie chan looks funny…apparently.

If you want cheap Random comics I always recommend going to your Local Forbidden Planet, I go in once a month and pick up their Back issue packs

4 Comics for £1 (i usually buy around £40 worth) If you purchased 3 TPB’s you’d be lucky to get change for £40 (Mattering on the TPB’s of course) I actually find that along side this back issue sale there is a large amount of Trades for reduced price either damaged slightly or being reprinted in some manner this applies to Manga as well. Over the years I’ve gotten entire runs of Harlem beat/Rebound along with random excellent Trades (a recent acquisition of The recent Run of Swamp thing)

Being able to look at the back and front of pack you can decided on which to purchase (If both front and back of pack have something you’ve never read…buy it etc) worst case scenario you get duplicates with the other two comics but then your Simply paying 50p per back issue for runs of comics your either interested in or want to fill in the gaps.

Ill admit during DC’s 52 i got hooked on this (Because i managed to get the entire single issue run for about £15) and i got burned bad by all the 52 aftermath/Countdown/search for…/Lord havok (Fscking Lord havok!) spin offs But you’ll find each month the Content will change currently I’m reading through the Dark reign Marvel Storyline (They must have a time limit for back issues and automatically put unsold issues in the packs after 6-8 months)

So to comic fans out there go build a ridiculous collection for a Fraction of the original cover price. Everything’s in >8.0 condition as well.

Mick foleys
Tietam Brown

Well, I’ll simply say for a story that foley himself points out as rewritten and polished and written some more it’s wonderfully rough and visceral.

The levels of violence and the pace in which these rages are expressed just carry you from page to page these maelstroms providing momentum that carrys the lulls of romantic story of flabouyant teenage love. The love and violence present throughout is demanding in the readers sphere of comprehension but the pattern built and expressed by the young tietam makes the final betrayal all so much more readible even in it’s horrific description

Of course it all ends in tragedy with a glimmer of hope but it is what we want and expect by the end. Tietam brown IV is a vile charisma oozing character that not just takes his son and the Many women in his life for a ride but also the reader in his turn for redemption, executed well by foley the juxtaposition of physical love almost achieved for Antietam is also the fullfilled emotional provided by holly. The failed acts of both affecting each in the same way. The cunning and rage personified but at odds with each other.

Well it is 2010 isn’t i that means all new all shiny all mad and all flashy redesign…

Well, No, I am not going to announce something as stupid as that considering i ad the site down as of late due to me being Broke and cheap. until i realised someone paid a portion of my hosting bill and all i had to do was Domain name register for another couple of years.

So we are on the airwaves as it were the Wi-Fi waves more appropriately and i have no Story to ring in the new year, Never to fear however articles are in the brewing among other stuff i haven’t been completely in Active. I’ve been fiddling about with spray paint and putting together a story structure for ‘Garden House’ along with a little crap camera photography so stick around for news reviews and creative spews.

Oh My God!

That’s it people time to close the world, its time to  hit the ‘Nukem’ button , its  time to surrender ourselves to our under dwelling masters. All that and many other bombastic affectations to doom. as you can see above we have reached a new low.

Honestly I’m slowly starting to lose my mind as i try to conceive of how many questions you can possibly ask about the Twilight movie. The fact that the game involves itself with the movie rather than the series of Novels make’s its scope severely limited, Not that the Twilight Saga was a deep well of discursive history and mythology in the first place.

To stop my self from going over the top in my distain for this iteration of the the excellent series of games i thought i would Wiki myself up with some knowledge of their release history now look at this list:

New DVD expansion games are released every year. Expansions include:

Harry Potter 1st Edition (2005)

Harry Potter 2nd Edition (2007)

Disney Edition

Warner Bros. 50th Anniversary Edition

James Bond Edition

HBO Edition

Turner Classic Movies Edition

Nickelodeon Edition

Marvel Comics Edition

Friends Edition

Pirates of the Caribbean Edition

Doctor Who Edition

FIFA Edition

Disney Channel Edition

Seinfeld Edition

Star Trek Edition

The Simpsons Edition

Now as you can see there is plenty of Fandom’s covered by their release’s but the presence of multiple editions for Disney/Harry potter to follow the continued development of the stories means an acceptance and attention to the limitations of focusing on a few titles in a series. In this list the Pirates of the Caribbean is the one pack trading on the least amount of footage released to sift and quiz upon, its connection to Disney history and the use of easily recognised cast members with illustrious movie histories filled out its content nicely.

In its use of the twilight series considering the limitation of focusing on the first film and its associated text just in time for New Moons release simply smacks of pandering to the already Ghoul like fanaticism that follows the book.

Yes, I hate the Twilight books and yes, i have read them. thankfully not having to pay for the displeasure go ahead and complain i have control over the horizontal the vertical and the comment box ^_^

Well Just giving the new Plug-in a test do feel free to comment here or on my twitter if this worked I must say it does provide the opportunity to be verbose and still post to twitter, For your information by the way i haven’t Twittered in quite a while due to the fact i Finally smashed my I-Phone its cracked screen finally gave way to a whitewash of destruction it still works i just can see bugger all… If i used a Video out cable maybe… Hmm It must be investigated anyone got a video out cable for the I-phone?

Keep smiling people and keep reading ^_^

Well Ladies and Germs,

With the preliminary work on the original image from breaking down the pose and figuring out exactly what i wanted to do different done. I then moved to finding the surface i was going to deface, I have begun to work on the walls template and it hasn’t been easy I am taking a break to do this journal to both Http://stolenproperty.deviantart.com DevArt and to the Http://www.pasticheoflife.com main site, Included here shall be a few lessons learned by working through this dark night.

Lesson 1. Don’t Draw directly to the surface using Pencil if your preliminarily sketching the layout.

Otherwise you end up with the mess i currently have on my wall i still have such a difficulty with drawing hands and having no eraser at hand to destroy these monstrosities of perspective and mutated bones mean’s i now have a scrawl of pencil marks where my hand will be. <Photos will be forthcoming i just don’t have a working phone to snap them at the moment>

Lesson 2. Normal file paper is perfectly alright for practicing your stencilling just don’t expect it to be to precise.

As you can see i had to do a test spray job to see how the paint takes to the wall and it doesn’t work to badly the only problem is that cutting paper and handling it makes it get a little soft on the edges so I am finding it bleeds a little to much on the tight angles that and its difficult to tape down every spike in a page. My solution for this is to use Masking tape directly applied to the wall for the more detailed parts i can’t do freehand mostly for the more precise hair spikes and for clothing decals/objects but this has its own issue of stripping paint already applied I am hoping the lesser tack is going to reduce the problem.

lesson 3. Never expect the exact result in hand as on digital

Having precisely produced the Vector art for my wall work taking that out of the system and placing it on the wall has been the biggest issue i took to it by hand and now have un expected alterations on the wall simply because the textured surface is informing the art. What i intended to be black/dark denim Carpenter jeans are now coming out as a Pair of Flared Cords still black/gray considering I am working Monotone but would be Brown or beige if i was to do this up coloured, Since the wall already has the texture although unexpectedly, it just came as a natural progression.

lesson 4. Don’t contemplate what your doing at 6am Looking at half finished work

Seriously don’t start late and expect sleep it is now 7am. I’m going for coffee then going about my business for the day but i  will not be sleeping until this thing is at least had its first coat of paint. It’s stupid its destructive and i should be doing things like work instead but i am a master procrastinator ^_^

I’m away for a cup of Joe anybody want anything?

So Instead of posting on this blog recently I’ve embarked on a little art project, I  intend to transform my Flat into a small art installation what its going to require is massive Sheets of paper/ Somewhere that prints A2, an xacto knife (We don’t have those here in Ireland apparently, So instead Craft knifes) and a bunch of time.

You may or may not know i Purchased a Wacom Bamboo pen tablet a few months back and I’ve been getting to grips with it and building up my digital drawing speed (From 4 hours to trace something to 2) I’m so talented (-_-)

Below you’ll see a few bits and pieces I’ve done getting me to grips with Vector Art/ Layering etc. Its bizarre how proficient i was at this back when i had accrued a portfolio of digital and hand drawn art at the age of 16 but its all managed to abandon me now I’m a talentless adult. Too much Playing video games robbed me of my artistic faculties ALERT THE PRESS!

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As you can see there’s a mix of stuff from cartoon characters (Both of them are Rogue from the show X-men Evolution) And photo manipulation of both my house and my trip to New York. Btw Sorry Kev and Roney you may look like colourful idiots but be assured ill be laughed at for the art

Now, all of this will be available here on the site As i work on it between my regular news postings but it will also be available on DeviantArt. Yes, I know I’ve fallen pray to outsourcing my site to other places like a little Web 2.0 sheep but its simply to promote this site and get on the fly critique so I’m not very concerned at all what people may think.

Here is me and My Bamboo (This is actually for the webcam Widget at DeviantArt Shush! don’t tell anyone)

I sit here now at the CD & Record Fair in Omagh with my stall of comics coming down with bargains and great choices but I am lacking in customers. Its strange i remember these fairs having a huge attendance with my teenage group but i think with the advent of digital purchasing and the loss of general taste has brought a death to the market in my home .

Coincidentally in starting to write this little blog post the lady who is running the whole thing came over to chat about the whole day being a bit of a bust and how quiet its been compared to any other day but i suppose that’s just my luck but taking on enough stock to run a few more days like this and breaking even isn’t to bad its just a pity i expended so much on Long boxes.

Just for a quick break down of my table check out the photos believe me there’s no point chronicling the rest of the room its all dealers and 2 Customers.

As you can see Quite a bit of Stock in view ^_^ and there’s even more out of view.