Below are the 17 most recent journal entries recorded in art_acquiesced's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
8:09 pm	I usually don't do these things but... This was alarming for just picking colored cubes. http://www.goldinuniverse.com/ Name: Art Date: 2/18/2009 Colorgenics Number: 37120465 You feel as if you have missed out on a great deal that life had to offer and you go about trying to make up for past failures. Naturally at times you get depressed and you try to compensate for your 'missed opportunities' by living your life to the full. This is what, perhaps, may be described as 'living with exaggerated intensity'. In this way you feel you can break the chains of the past and start again - and it could be that you are right. You are very self-sufficient and methodical. You presume to know where you are going but need to find a person who will recognise the way you are, not be too demanding and who is, as they say in Italy, 'Simpatico'. Although you are, deep down, a very caring person, you are very particular in the choice of friends and indeed very demanding at times. You can be most quarrelsome and controversial and it is because of this argumentative trait you can at times explode into open conflict - conflict with even those you may care for and love. It is because of this inherent argumentative streak in you that may have resulted in broken hopes and dreams. For whatever the reason, you find it extremely difficult to sustain relationships - that is to sustain them in the manner that you would wish. You are a very gentle sort of person, full of feeling, sensitivity and susceptible to love and affection, looking and longing for a partner with whom you can enjoy 'All things bright and beautiful' - someone with whom you can seek out the more esoteric things of life. But up to now this person has only existed in your imagination. You are very choosy, appreciative, refined and extremely artistic in temperament and it is your hope to seek others who will allow you to form and express your own taste and judgement and who at the same time may assist you in your intellectual or artistic growth. You really would like to be completely uninhibited - to let your hair down - but you are held back by your sense of logic and rationalilty, since you realise that by simple stupidity you could lose everything - whatever that may be. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
6:33 am	Vague and ominous is no way to go through life, son. To understand this story there's two things you need to know about, trap blocking and Joe Cho. Trap blocking is a football technique in which the play side tackle ignores the defensive lineman opposite him and goes and blocks a linebacker or someone else in the second level. The tackle from the other side of the line pulls and runs to the other side and hits the defensive lineman as he gets into the backfield. Watching out for trap blocks was the #2 thing the line coach at Stuyvesnt High School taught us to watch out for (#1 was the screen pass which was very hard for our defensive scheme to defend if the linemen didn't stay home). Joe Cho was a senior offensive tackle when I was a freshman. Joe was one of the biggest dudes I've ever seen (his younger brother Tim was my year and while also a monster was not nearly the size of his brother) giant Korean lineman were basically all Stuyvesant football teams had going for them back in my day. Sure there was always a few quality skill players but it was huge Korean kids who made things happen up front. Joe was a monster in the brief period where I actually wanted to play football I wanted to play like him. So toward the end of my freshman year there was a day where the varsity was short handed at practice. I was asked to fill in and play some defense. The varsity coach liked me way more than the JV coach so it was a win for both of them, the varsity coach got to see me play some and the JV coach didn't have to waste reps on a kid he would never play. The second or third play in they run a trap play, I get past my man (who let me through as explained above) start running into the backfield when WHAM Joe Cho hits me on his pull and puts me on my ass. I swear I was completely airborne at one point in this exchange. He helps me up, I shake it off and I go back to being extremely overmatched (I would actually score a tackle in this practice though which made it like the only practice I remember after 10 years). Towards the end of the practice they run the trap again. I fall for it at first and just as my brain gets to "Oh my God I'm going to get killed," and I turn to try and take the hit Joe grabs me and says, "Don't worry I'm not going to hit you again" he wraps me up and pushes me out of the play. Joe was really a good guy. I never got a chance to run the trap, I played center on offense and they never pull. I've always wondered what that must have been like for him to just be running down on someone completely unaware with a chance to do that kind of damage. This has been on my mind lately for a very particular reason. Current Mood: discontent (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
5:38 pm	Read my Column Hey everyone. Chris and I have a new column and if you aren't following me on Facebook or Twitter you might have missed it. Who would want that? Here's the link. Read it, tell your friends, even comment. http://michaeldavisworld.com/cgi/wp/?p=44 Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
Friday, November 14th, 2008
9:01 pm	"Um, what's the name of the word for things not being the same always? You know, I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it... the thing that lets you know time is happening. Is there a word?" So I've been think a lot about comics lately and I want to share those thoughts with you, 8 people who might read this. WARNING: Spoilers for Sandman and Watchmen follow, these books are 12 and 21 years old respectively, what exactly were you waiting for? I'm not going to see the Watchmen movie. Not in theaters at least. I've decided it would do nothing but upset me, maybe upset is too strong a word. Snyder proved in his adaptation of 300 that he is capable of being amazingly faithful to his source material, and completely oblivious to thematic content. His changes to the ending make this abundantly clear. I won't go into any detail but the events in the book happen for a reason and to change them this radically not only detracts from the story but from plausibility of the villain's plan and the competence of the villain overall. Add that to the dozens of aggravating minor changes and I think I'll stay home on 3/6/09 and read the book instead, I've already paid for it and it won't disappoint me, it never has. I also think I'm about done with buying DC comics. It's hard to really explain the magnitude of this decision. Wednesday has been comics day my entire life and my stack has always been overwhelmingly DC. I just can't buy comics from Dan DiDio anymore. He's turned the universe that has captured my imagination lo these 24 years and turned it into a harsh and joyless place. This didn't crystalize for me until I read an interview with him on Newsarama this week. He mentioned that since he took over (in 2002) he's been trying to bring back Barry Allen. This on it's surface doesn't bother me, I think it's a bad idea but whatever. The problem is the disgusting wreck the Flash books have been of late is like his way of accomplishing that. Trashing Bart Allen (my favorite character for a huge part of my youth) and Wally West (been Flash since I was 2) is the only way he thought he could accomplish this. So I looked around and about 90% of the DC books I pick up are out of habit, almost none of them are any good anymore, so I'm out. I'm going to run out Final Crisis, Batman through the Gaiman arc, Superman through New Krypton, JLA for the Milestone stuff and then I'm out. I'm not saying if there was another All-Star Superman or something I wouldn't buy it but I see no reason to support this direction of this company anymore. I'll outlive DiDio's reign on this company, I'll see everyone on the other side. Finally, Sandman. Volume Four of The Absolute Sandman came out this week and it has been a joy reliving this series. This was my fourth time through and it still really works for me. This was the first time I felt like I really got Nuala as a character. I always saw her as more of a plot device before this time I was really freed of the delusion. Also Matthew's last conversation with Morpheus and his first with Daniel are pretty rad. No one's putting out anything this good these days. I wonder if the truly literate comic book is dead. If you have the money, buy these. If you don't put them on your Amazon wish list. It's worth experiencing in the Absolute format. Way too long. I should learn how to insert cuts. Change. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
6:03 am	So, How is LA? I've been out here two and a half months now, how 'bout that? It's been pretty rocking. Chris and I have been working pretty hard on a couple projects and they're both out of our hands right now but even if neither actually gets made it's been great experience developing ideas and pitching them. One of the pitches is for a kids show which is about as far from what I thought I'd be doing as possible but it's been a hell of a lot of fun to work on, except for the research part, kids watch a lot of crap. I'll have a driver's license as soon as I can get a car for the road test (Chris' insurance specifically excludes me from driving his car and the DMV doesn't like that) and I'll actually own an automobile soon after that, imagine that. Totally necessary out here though, the subway is pretty rad if I just want to go where the subway goes but the LA subway is about the equivalent of only having the A train. The shift in cuisine out here has been pretty shocking. No one out here can make a decent bagel and I've found one place with palatable pizza. I don't understand this, neither are terribly hard to make and the ethnic groups are certainly here. That said the Thai food out here is good to the point where I feel I was lied to about what Thai food is. Mexican food is also exceptional out here as you might have guessed. The entire sushi experience is different out here and I think I prefer it. That's how I'm doing I guess, creatively fulfilled and culinarily engaged. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
11:46 pm	It's still quarter to 12 where I am So the is the seventh September 11th since the sky almost literally fell down on me. I told Chris earlier that the writing seminar I took last November was probably one of the five most influential experiences of my life because it directly led me to moving to LA which has dictated my career arc up til now. September 11th 2001 is the number one experience on that list. It has affected everyday since, I think it was the event that ended my self-obsessed childhood and moved me into my adulthood, which while certainly ego driven is nowhere near the person I was before. I looked inside myself after that and saw the real me. I didn't think about that 9/11 this 9/11. I just led my life which I haven't done on this day the last six years. It felt good and I could look at the sky and it wasn't that same godforsaken shade of blue. This is a pretty outstanding step although it greatly devalues Bruce's The Rising in my music collection. Anyway this is something I read for the first time today, it's by the usually amazingly funny John Hodgman. It's pretty great, I hope you can all enjoy it like I did. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/9/11hodgman.html Current Mood: pensive (Comment on this)
Monday, September 1st, 2008
4:53 pm	Good Lord Hearing that Gustav is some sort of victory for the GOP makes me think of the Chris Rock bit, "What do you want, a cookie? You're supposed to take care of people during a disaster!" I'm very glad that it looks like this won't be a problem on the scale of Katrina, I just wish people weren't trying to score points off of it. It looks like luck drove this more than anything, the storm weakened before it hit and it went west of the earliest predictions. More from me later, a lot of stuff has been happening, but this was sort of bleeding out of my skull. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Dispatch - The General (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
1:53 pm	One day the emo posts will stop, this I swear This is entirely not about me moving. But again shit goes down and just sitting down and writing is the only way I know how to deal. My Grandmother on my father's side has been in a bad way lately. She broke her hip a while back and has been navigating a tough road to recovery that has currently but her in a medicaid supported nursing home in Texas, allow me to assure you that is somewhere you never want to end up. Her insurance company determined that she was suffering from dementia and that rehabilitating her on any other level was a waste of their money. In addition almost half of people her age who break their hip die within 12 months, it's just an amazingly shitty injury to have. I've been expecting news of her death to join the chorus of bad news coming out of Texas. I don't want her to die by any means but I'm ready to hear that news. It hasn't come yet. She's hanging on with strength I honestly didn't think she still had. The phone call I got at 10 this morning was to tell me that my other Grandmother is about to die. My mother's stepmother was diagnosed with cancer. My Grandfather on that side is a rich man, they caught it very early, things generally looked good, she had the very best of care. I heard things here and there about her reacting to the chemo badly (if anyone knows of anyone that ever took chemo well let me know) and that it wasn't in remission in the way the doctors wanted, more treatment would be necessary. She went back into the hospital recently and they've told us she won't be coming out, it's over for her, just a matter of time. I wasn't ready for that. She is such a strong woman I couldn't conceive of this beating her. The prognosis remained upbeat until this morning. It's like being punched in the stomach. This is the second wife my Grandfather will bury to cancer, he lost my mom's mom to breast cancer in the weeks after my parents' wedding. Modern science could have saved her, it couldn't save Jane. I worry that this is going to destroy him. Jane was his rock these past few years. If you'd told me that he would survive her even a year ago I would have told you you were insane. He was looking older and older, he was having dramatic accidents. She was holding him together, stopped him from giving up in that ICU unit two and a half years ago. Saved his life. We couldn't save her. I am going to have to go to Florida at the drop of a hat sometime soon. Won't that be a pain in the ass. The first thing I thought when I was told this news is that my black suit wasn't clean. Funny how shock works ne? Current Mood: shocked (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 9th, 2008
11:44 am	Ugh I promised myself I wouldn't do this again. This is probably going to be another nostalgia centered rant. You can skip it, it won't offend me. My lease is sent in, no turning back. I have the same feeling I get when the harness snaps down on a roller coaster (Man do roller coasters scare me) that hardened pit in my stomach. This is going to happen, in 22 days I will live in North Hollywood, in about 16 days I won't live here anymore. 6/23 isn't the date anymore and our road trip is being scaled back in the face of $4.50 gas, we're going to figure out exactly when on Friday but looks like 6/26. A three day stay of execution for life as I know it. This is going to sound callous as hell but it isn't people I worry about missing at this point. I believe that the internet has made the world smaller and that I'll be back here enough that I won't be forgotten. The people I love will always be with me it's just the why and how will change. What I do worry about is all the things I'll miss. The late nights at the bar, the lazy afternoons chilling. the parties, the inside jokes. All of this shared experience stops. I read Alex Robinson's new book last night (Too Cool to be Forgotten) and in it the character has a conversation in which he tells his dying father how angry he is about all the events of his life that he'll miss out on. This connected with me dramatically. I won't be here for the defining events of your lives. I can talk with you about them on the phone or on AIM but I won't be able to buy you a drink when someone breaks your heart or celebrate the escalations of your respective careers or even to put some new comic in your hand and tell you to read it. I probably won't be here when you meet your wives and husbands. Not that I think I made this decision lightly. This move is completely necessary if I'm going to make it in television; not going out there would haunt me forever. I'm mad at myself for needing this, do you know how many careers I could have in New York? Probably tens of thousands, maybe more, none of those are good enough for me? Really? I feel so god dammed selfish (which in turn makes me feel like a jackass, I'm quite sure you'll all get along just fine and that being deprived my company probably won't even make your top 40 list of shitty things that happened in this life). I'm trying to be zen about this, to take each day as it comes and all that (except today and tomorrow I plan to continue to duck this heat wave) but as the number of days I have to take as they come dwindles that becomes much harder. Thanks for letting me share. Thanks for reading this entire self-indulgent post. I really appreciate you guys. Really. Current Music: Hello, Goodbye - The Beatles (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 9th, 2008
6:32 am	Art doesn't live here anymore So I literally just got back from my exploratory trip to Los Angeles and barring any sort of unforeseen complication Chris and i will be living here (in a floor plan b2 if you give a shit). It's a really beautiful place, we'll have a view of the mountains and they're building a park across the street. We decided on it because we really fell in love with the neighborhood. It is in the NoHo Arts District, a cunning attempt by city planners to revitalize the once undesirable area of North Hollywood by turning it into their version of 1980's SoHo. as someone who lived in 1980's SoHo it isn't even close but it is very nice, a ton of theaters and dance studios along with some nice new developments like the place i'm moving into and the amazing supermarket practically across the street. Also if I can be allowed one horrifically bad joke per entry how could I not live in the district for Arts (get it, get it) The multitude of theaters makes me think that I could probably get a play produced if I wrote one that wasn't awful. It's supposed to be a great way to show people that you can write stuff that doesn't blow. I do happen to have no idea how to write a play though, something to try and learn I guess. We leave six weeks from Monday. God that isn't a lot of time. Last trip to Hofstra ever this Saturday. Every thing's going to be a last something soon. I know I have to leave because my support network here is too strong and I'll never be forced to succeed but it's amazingly hard leaving virtually everyone behind. Do come visit, we plan to have a sofa bed. Current Mood: nostalgic Current Music: rain against the a/c unit. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 13th, 2007
1:47 pm	Literacy? On the Internet? You're The Sound and the Fury! by William Faulkner Strong-willed but deeply confused, you are trying to come to grips with a major crisis in your life. You can see many different perspectives on the issue, but you're mostly overwhelmed with despair at what you've lost. People often have a hard time understanding you, but they have some vague sense that you must be brilliant anyway. Ultimately, you signify nothing. Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid. Current Mood: lazy (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
7:37 pm	You'll have to forgive me for linking to the New York Post http://www.nypost.com/seven/09242006/news/regionalnews/cancer_shock_at_ground_zero_hs_regionalnews_elizabeth_wolff.htm This scared the living hell out of me. It was the prevalent opinion among the student body back then that we were probably unsafe. Then this happens. I'm fairly convinced this one day will cast a spectre over the rest of my life. I still can't ever really think about it. Or talk about it. Now it has to be on my mind everytime I cough. Fantastic. Current Mood: scared Current Music: Watching The Wire. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
10:09 pm	i take quizes on the internet! the Wit (76% dark, 23% spontaneous, 31% vulgar) your humor style: CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat. I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor takes the most thought to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my opinion. You probably loved the Office. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/. PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais The 3-Variable Funny Test! - it rules - If you're interested, try my best friend's best test: The Genghis Khan Genetic Fitness Masterpiece My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on darkness You scored higher than 99% on spontaneity You scored higher than 99% on vulgarity Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test I think this fucked up in labeling me as "clean" I just thought their gross stuff was lame. Oh well, bunch of cunts. I refuse to take the nazi germany one as I find the premise mildly offensive (and god help them if I didn't rate as resistance). (Comment on this)
Friday, August 25th, 2006
5:20 pm	All the cool kids are doing it. Some funny ones not pictured. fuck you shape of my face. (Comment on this)
Monday, July 10th, 2006
9:21 pm	Man, I never use this thing do I? This is totally a guilt about never posting post but let's see if I can't figure out some interesting things to say. First off, "If You Could Read My Mind" off the new Johhny Cash CD is beautiful. It's one of his last recordings and his voice doesn't really have the power behind it anymore and the way he sings it with those lyrics is just amazing. Cash and Rubin have to be given a ton of credit for making amazing music even while Cash was getting progressively weaker. I think I like American V more than I like American IV. For anyone reading this who doesnt know I have accquired gainful employment for the first time in almost four years. I am a kithen assistant at my favorite restaurant in the world Shopsin's. Pays well and it might not be driving me crazy. What else can one ask for in a job? This paragraph is not particularly insightful and anyone reading this knows this. Looks like I have a ton of time off in August. If anyone wants to go anywehre or do anything book time with me now. I think a vacation is in order. I've never gone on vacation as an adult really. Unfortunately August rules out most of Europe and anything in the tropics. Oh well if anyone has any cool ideas to spend a few days get at me about them. I could just use some time to kick back. I havent had much time for myself in the past year I think I've only taken one month off since last February and I would really like to just get away from it all. I've noticed that new super long survey meme and it seems that I have this whole group of friends that has never smoked pot, that weirds the hell out of me. I don't smoke pot because I don't especially like it but I thought every person of college age had at least taken a hit or two. Maybe this is a suburbs thing? No back alleys and abandoned piers to smoke on I guess. Whatever. Current Mood: discontent Current Music: Johnny Cash (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
1:43 am	The magic of the internet Arianne and I have worked things out and, at least for the immediate future everything looks alright. I still feel disconnected but I think it's something I can either get over or deal with on individual levels. I'm deleting my other post because man is it emo. Through the magic of the internet it's like it never happened. Shazam! Current Mood: content (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
3:04 pm	I would watch this movie <td align="center"> Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com</td> Current Mood: good (Comment on this)