I'm your only friend, a little glowing friend

I need to correct myself on my last post. I totally forgot that Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is another cartoon I've seen recently and would like to talk about eventually. I thought it really good and it seemed like either people didn't talk about it much or the folks who did didn't have much positive things to talk about. I found that kind of befuddling.



Today is a very special day for me. Despite the fact that I had to work 10 hours today in pretty exhausting conditions, I later treated myself to a slice of key lime pie. This treat was to commemorate a decision I made on this day 16 years ago. At that time, I was super into the His Dark Materials books series, as well as the Golden Compass film that had come out around that time. The concept of dæmons fascinated me, and my obsession led me to a community that centered around the concept of form-finding. Basically through animal research you find out out what shape your own dæmon would take. It was so fun reading through all the animal pages and matching up the traits to see what fit best. I even gave my little guy a name, Taque, and I've considered  lots of different forms for him. Most often a puffin, a sand cat, and several small deer species. The community has changed a lot over the years and seems to have become a lot more spiritual in some ways. I think it's pretty interesting. Anyway, it suddenly resurfaced in my mind that the anniversary of that day was coming up. I can't believe it was so long ago!



I don't have a lot to say about this but I have noticed when I watch Digimon, the concept of a digimon partner seems to be very similar to dæmons. A friend that is destined to be with you, knows you better than anyone, and the two of you are linked in energy and spirit (via the digivice, in this case). The only difference here is with dæmons when you grow up, it stops shapeshifting and "settles" into one shape. Wheras we now know with digimon (in the Adventure canon) when you grow up the digimon vanishes. It dies. The loss of childhood is portrayed as something much more traumatic in that way, I suppose?


Anyway, another thing that made today special is that the refurbished iPod nano I ordered off eBay finally arrived. I've been reading a tons of stuff about how important owning your media is becoming. Streaming is increasingly more unstable, expensive, and riddled with advertisements. Visual media seems to be having these issues the most, but music is up there too. I have so many CD's in my collection. I might as well import them all and do my daily listening completely ad-free. We'll see how it goes.

Also been getting more and more into the old web and sites that were created to recreate that atmosphere. Not only this blog site, but places like SpaceHey and Neocities are pretty neat and something I might check out. I'd still like to create my own forum for animation fans but I for now I think I'm not skilled enough. Plus all these message boards builders seem to be PC-based. Meh.

The Berlin Wall fell and out we came The post-Cold War kids laid claim to AIM LOL, OMG, yo, BRB. Space, colon, dash, closed parenthesis We sat at our laptops and typed away And found that we each had something to say Web-logged our fears, our hopes and dreams Individuated by digital means Fiber optic lenses, DVD, Coca Cola, Disney and Mickey D’s Flat mass culture, the norm that took hold I hope I die before I get sold “Hey! You’re part of it” Talking about the iGeneration

I had a LiveJournal as a teenager and it's still up to this day somewhere, in all its cringeworthy glory. I don't regret it and I'm glad such an outlet existed back then when I really needed one. I wrote a lot on paper too of course, but those relics have been lost to time. The internet, as they say, is forever.

I considered starting a new LJ but not only is that site a ghost town, but it appears to be riddled with ads and when websites fall into a state of decay like that I can't help but think they might be unsafe to use. So after lots of digging through several modern equivalents, this site seems to do nicely for the time being. This might be the only entry I end up writing, but this was a fun attempt. I forgot how nice it feels to unwind with stream-of-consciousness writing.

I guess before I go I should make note of something specific that happened to me today since this is a blog, after all. Today I went bowling with coworkers and I bowled a 114. Probably the best score I've ever done since I'm not good at bowling. Tomorrow I'd like to focus on cleaning up the house, getting some art done or at least started, and also try to start on my revised resume. I've been experiencing a lot of blaring signs that it's finally time for a major change in life and I have some ideas on how to go about that. I'm pretty hopeful about it but I just need to get motivated.