"Blood Red Sandman" by Lordi

"Blood Red Sandman" by Lordi

The TRIVIA is two posts down!

Kick ass band from Finland... Visually, it's obvious these guys got some influence from GWAR...not that I have a problem with that because I love it when costumed bands are done well... However, Lordi's music is totally unlike GWAR and is very 80's metal sounding...and this particular song's video is based on the "Evil Dead" movies (one part also reminds me of one scene from Dimension Films's "Dracula 2000")...killer music, killer image, and Evil Dead...just can't go wrong with that shite...!

Bukkake!

Currently listening to: "12 Hundred" by Mushroomhead

NEW long awaited TRIVIA below this post!

Whether intentional or not, here's a random pic I found on the web that just might be my favorite image of the year:

Hehehe...actually, I really dig this one.

And as long as we're talking about bukkake, here's something I've shared before and will probably share again:
"I Like Bukkake"

If for whatever reason you don't know what bukkake is, check the Urban Dictionary...there is a great diagram that easily explains bukkake listed under the first definition...

Trivia Quiz for Squiggle X

Currently listening to "Voir Sur Ton Chemin" by Bruno Coulais

Sorry for the hiatus... I was indeed truly busy with work and then, since I haven't had to go to work this week, this is the first time I'm turning my computer on since probably Friday...my virtually lifeless body kept having dreams of people poking me with sharp sticks... ... ...not sexually... Here is the long-awaited, and fuckin' huge, tenth installment of the Trivia Quiz for Squiggle.

Here also, are some freaks to check out:
Carrot Museum

1. What was the last Disney animated feature to use hand-painted cels and analog camera and film work?
A. The Little Mermaid
B. Beauty & The Beast
C. Aladdin

2. The code title for Disney's "The Incredibles" (to protect the movie's secrecy) was what?
A. Sand Dogs
B. Tights
C. Parrific

3. What fictitious brand of cigarettes make appearances in Quentin Tarantino's movies?
A. Nails
B. Schultz
C. Red Apple

4. In the first Predator movie, the Predator's blood was made out of glow sticks and what?
A. KY Jelly
B. Karo Syrup
C. Hair gel

5. What was the body count in the first Predator movie?
A. 22
B. 37
C. 64

6. In the German version of Die Hard, the terrorists are not from Germany. How are they referred to?
A. South Africans
B. Swiss
C. Just plain "Europeans"

7. What is the Hungarian title for Die Hard?
A. Live to gun tomorrow please
B. Give your life expensive
C. Vigilante justice extreme

8. In the movie Mean Girls, the movie Janice and Damian are watching on Halloween is:
A. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
B. Friday the 13th: Part 2
C. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

9. How many times does the word fuck (and its variations) appear in the movie Bad Santa?
A. 147
B. 238
C. 303

10. What is the estimated total monetary value spent on golf balls by golfers annually?
A. $100 million
B. $300 million
C. $800 million

11. In poker, what is the chance of drawing a flush?
A. 1 in 100
B. 1 in 500
C. 1 in 1,000

12. The first soccer World Cup was held in what country in 1930?
A. Panama
B. Uruguay
C. Brazil

13. Which of these rock/metal bands covered Heaven 17's "Temptation" this year (2006)?
A. Mortiis (from Norway)

B. Lordi (from Finland)

C. Cradle of Filth (from England)


14. How much does the International Space Station weigh?
A. 500 tons
B. 1,000 tons
C. 2,000 tons

15. What was the first American satellite in orbit?
A. Explorer I
B. Sputnik I
C. Hermes I

16. What is a cluster of bananas called?
A. A bunch
B. A spider
C. A hand

17. Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem. They are actually what?
A. Giant herbs
B. Vegetables
C. Weeds

18. About how many eggs does a female mackerel lay at one time?
A. 250,000
B. 500,000
C. 1,500,000

19. How many times a second can a woodpecker peck?
A. 10
B. 20
C. 50

20. What was the first cartoon character to have been made into a balloon for a parade?
A. Mickey Mouse
B. Felix the Cat
C. Bugs Bunny

21. About how long can human tapeworms grow up to?
A. 15m
B. 23m
C. 37m

22. On average, about how many chinchillas does it take to make a fur coat?
A. Anywhere between 30 to 50
B. Anywhere between 60 to 100
C. Anywhere between 120 to 150

23. How long does it take to boil an ostrich egg?
A. 20 minutes
B. 40 minutes
C. 80 minutes

24. What the Hell is poshintang?
A. Dog meat soup
B. The Korean word for genital herpes
C. A type of coat made of leather and fur

25. Macaroni, Gentoo, and Chinstrap are types of what?
A. Parsnips
B. Penguins
C. Pastas

26. What is the medical term for a natural gap between two teeth?
A. Diastema
B. Diaphoresis
C. Diazepam

27. What was the name of Sir Isaac Newton's pet Pomeranian?
A. Cotton
B. Diamond
C. Euphrates

28. What is the real first name of actor Lon Chaney Sr.?
A. London
B. Leonard
C. Alonzo

29. How many patents are attributed to Thomas Edison?
A. 667
B. 841
C. 1,093

30. What is Pat Benatar's maiden name?
A. Bryniarski
B. Andrzejewski
C. Anatevka

31. What is the first name of the TV character MacGyver (played by Richard Dean Anderson)?
A. Angus
B. Seamus
C. Bob

32. What is the adjectival form for a mongoose?
A. hystricine
B. equine
C. herpestine

33. What are the first and middle name of A.A. Milne?
A. Artemis Ackerman
B. Alan Alexander
C. Alfred Alden

34. What is Princess Leia's adopted last name?
A. Jamillia
B. Alderaan
C. Organa

35. In Sue Grafton's alphabetical ongoing series of whodunits, "C is for_____":
A. Chills
B. Cover-up
C. Corpse

36. Geza is the middle name of which actor?
A. Keira Knightley
B. Ben Affleck
C. Jason Biggs

37. Bechuanaland is the former name of what nation?
A. Argentina
B. Botswana
C. Singapore

38. In Pac-Man, the four ghosts are Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and:
A. Shrinky
B. Kinky
C. Clyde
Although I must say, if there were a porno called "Shrinky, Kinky, & Clyde" the possibilities could be endless...and now, for no reason whatsoever, here's my list of possible titles for if the Star Wars movies were porno:
Episode I: The Phantom Menses
Episode II: The Sack of the Clones
(I wanted to say Attack of the Hos cuz that would be a damn funny movie title...porno or not...but I couldn't think of anything else for Episode IV and didn't want to use Hos twice)
Episode III: Revenge of the Slit
Episode IV: A New Ho
Episode V: The Empire Sucks Balls
Episode VI: Return of the Red Eye
Feel free to send me your list...on any movie/franchise...you lovely sick bastards, you!

39. What was the Bank of America known as when it was founded in San Francisco in 1904?
A. Bank of Italy
B. Bank of New York
C. Bank of London

40. What did it say on the sign on the outer fence at the Addams Family residence in the TV sitcom?
A. Beware of The Thing
B. Weird is Relative
C. Abandon All Hope

41. What is the technical term for a palm reader?
A. Chiromancer
B. Zoroastrian
C. Thaumaturge

42. What does "zwitter" mean in German?
A. Hermaphrodite
B. A mother's teat
C. Thong underwear

43. What is the Australian equivalent to the Academy Award?
A. Ariel
B. Genie
C. Lovely

44. What is Kevin Spacey's real last name?
A. Fowler
B. Kinsey
C. Bunche

45. What is the raised part of a sundial that casts the shadow?
A. Glyptic
B. Gnomon
C. Gorelick

46. What was the original name of pop group New Kids on the Block?
A. Odium
B. Nynuk
C. Tough

47. The rock group Styx was once known as:
A. TW4
B. Trivium
C. Christmas

48. What is an amanita phalloides?
A. A rare, fuzzy white spider
B. A Babylonian statue of an erect penis
C. The world's deadliest mushroom

49. According to a Turkish proverb, coffee should be "black as hell,
strong as death, and _____":
A. as bountiful as sand
B. as smooth as silk
C. as sweet as love

50. What was the name of Olive Oyl's boyfriend before Popeye?
A. Ham Gravy
B. Highland Dale
C. Sergeant Snorkel

Sorry!

Currently listening to: "The Only One" by Ra

Sorry, I know I owe you guys trivia and I also have to make up for the last trivia quiz... I'm über-fükkin busy at the moment...work has been Hell, I feel like shite, and I'm under pressure to get the family XXX-Mas card done... But all these setbacks will only push me to make the tenth quiz the most kick-ass installment yet...it'll be HUGE...!

So until then, here's a picture of my boy (Smallsac) you can all marvel at...he'll be five on the 25th:

Need Help!...with...words...

Currently listening to: "Crusty Monkey" by Lunatics on Parole

I'm trying to compile a big-ass list of interesting words, out-of-the-ordinary words, etc that wouldn't be difficult for a kid to understand.

For example: SKEDADDLE
ske·dad·dle
–verb (used without object) 1. to run away hurriedly; flee.

It's not necessarily an everyday word and it's an interesting and fun-sounding word that I don't think would totally go over a child's head. Any input would be MUCH appreciated!

TQFS #9 Answers

Currently listening to: "Pirates Life for Me" by Buckethead

Looks like Doug is this installment's winner with 7 out of 10 correct...congrats, Doug!

1. How much food does a 1,200 pound horse eat each year?
A. Seven times its own weight

2. What is a capon?
B. A castrated rooster
Poor guy...

3. A polecat is not a cat…so what the Hell is it?
C. A nocturnal European weasel

4. A howler monkey’s call can be heard up to how many miles away?
B. Two

5. Infant beavers are called what?
A. Kittens
Kittens covered in spikes...I hate babies!


6. What is the instrument called that measures the force, velocity, or pressure of the wind?
B. Anemometer
The bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel and a sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure...

7. The base of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is large enough to cover how many football fields?
C. Ten

8. The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged how many yards in length?
B. One thousand

9. What is the name of the metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet?
A. The Brannock device
Both the other names listed were from Pirates of the Caribbean...

10. Louis Cartier invented the wristwatch in what year?
B. 1904

Trivia Quiz For Squiggle #9

Currently listening to: "Bag It" by Peaches

1. How much food does a 1,200 pound horse eat each year?
A. Seven times its own weight
B. Ten times its own weight
C. Seventeen times its own weight

2. What is a capon?
A. An sweet tasting herb
B. A castrated rooster
C. A bar used to expand a piercing hole to make room for a larger piercing

3. A polecat is not a cat…so what the Hell is it?
A. A type of kangaroo
B. A skunk without the ability to spray its scent
C. A nocturnal European weasel

4. A howler monkey’s call can be heard up to how many miles away?
A. One
B. Two
C. Four

5. Infant beavers are called what?
A. Kittens
B. Grunts
C. Lunch

6. What is the instrument called that measures the force, velocity, or pressure of the wind?
A. Bathometer
B. Anemometer
C. Sphygmomanometer

7. The base of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is large enough to cover how many football fields?
A. Seven
B. Eight
C. Ten

8. The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged how many yards in length?
A. Five hundred
B. One thousand
C. Thirteen hundred

9. What is the name of the metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet?
A. The Brannock device
B. The Cruces device
C. The Davenport device

10. Louis Cartier invented the wristwatch in what year?
A. 1895
B. 1904
C. 1913

Scattergories

Currently listening to: "Nordland" by Bathory

Sent to me by a co-worker...the trivia will be a little late today... There was an office XXXmas party last night and I didn't get home until late...so I'll be writing up today's questions during my lunch hour... Here are the unedited rules:

Rules: Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following...They MUST be real places, names, things...NOTHING made up! If you can't think of anything, skip it. Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

Your Name: Scott

1. Athlete:
Seaver Miller (competitive eater)

2. 4 Letter Word:
Shit

3. Street Name:
Sepulveda Blvd.

4. Color:
Shortbus yellow

5. Gifts/Presents:
Sex toys

6. Vehicles:
Surfboard (hey, it gets you from a point A to a point B)

7. Tropical Locations:
Satan’s crotch

8. College Majors:
Sexual behaviour

9. Dairy Products:
Sour cream

10. Things in a Souvenir Shop:
Souvenirs…bitches!

11. Boy Name:
Simon

12. Girl Name:
Sophie

13. Movie Titles:
Sharkboy & Lava Girl (I worked on the DVD!)

14. Beers/Alcohol:
Sake

15. Occupations:
Sperm donor

16. Flowers:
Sunflower

17. Celebrities:
Satan

18. Magazines:
Seventeen

19. U.S. Cities:
Spread Eagle (I think it’s in Wisconsin)

20. Pro Sports Teams:
Saints

So Far in '06

Currently listening to "Blood Gulch Blues" by Trocadero

Trivia answers to TQFS #8 are posted below this post! This is one of those questionnaire thingies that gets sent around... Here's my "So Far in '06"... Who knows, it could all change in the (little over) TWO weeks we have left for this year...!

SO FAR IN 2006:

(I still have no life...)

1. Have you had more than 5 different relationships?
Nope...

2. Have you had your birthday?
I’ve had 25 of them so far...

3. Been to church?
Not in ’06...went many many moons ago because my Mom made me do it...

4. Cried yet?
Not this year...I have no heart left to tell my eyes to cry…

5. Pulled an all nighter?
Ugh...yeah...

6. Drank Starbucks?
Never...!

7. Went shopping?
Probably too much...

8. Been camping?
Not in over a decade...

9. Been to the beach?
Yes, in Hawaii...it was really pathetic since I haven't swam since I was really young...being a 24 year old guy with long hair making a pathetic attempt at a doggie paddle was, well, pathetic...

10. Bought something for over 200 bucks?
New 'Line 6' amp...

11. Met someone?
How can you go a whole year without meeting a single soul?...this is a dumb question...

12. Been out of state?
Yup, first time out of state in, like, 17 years or so...went to Hawaii to help my buddy’s brother move in...it was three days of unloading and arranging furniture...

13. Gone Snowboarding?
Nope...not ever...I’d probably kill myself if I tried...

HAVE YOU:
1. Hugged someone?
I think so...

2.Slept in someone elses bed?
When I went to Hawaii we stayed at my friend’s brother’s new place…that wasn’t my bed...

3. Snuck someone over?
No need to...nothing to hide...

4. Snuck out of your own house?
No need to...nothing to hide...

5. Gotten drunk?
Not this year...yet...

6. Lied?
Of course! I work in the entertainment industry!

7. Gotten a car?
No...

8. Gone over your cell phone bill?
Not really...

9. Been called a whale?
Whathahell? I recall being called a prick when I suggested that my friend become a jizzmopper...we were trying to think of jobs that would most likely pay ‘under the table’...

10. Driven somewhere?
Every fucking day...who wrote these questions?

11. Done something you regret?
Of course!

LASTS:
1. Last thing you bought?
Dinner...at KFC...which may or may not have given me a weird allergic reaction last night...

2. Last person you hugged?
It’s been so long I don’t remember...

3. Last person to call you?
Not counting calls at work, it looks like the winner is Helsinki...not many people call me...

4. Last time you took a shower?
This morning...6AM PST

5. When was the last time you felt stupid?
Every fucking minute of every fucking day...

6. Who was the last person who saw you cry?
My mom...

7. Who was the last person who made you cry?
Some horrible whore...

8. Who was the last person you danced with?
Trolls don’t dance!

9. What did you do today?
Awoke, arose, showered, got in car, drove to work, logged onto computer, checked work emails, checked personal emails, doing this questionnaire...

PERSONAL:
1. Hometown:
Deadchester, CA

2. Natural hair color:
Dark brown

3. Eye color:
Hazel

4. Height:
5’ 6”

5. Pets:
Soft, then heavy...

6. Mood:
Pissed off...as usual...

WHICH OF THESE:
1. Love or lust?
There is no such thing as (romantic) love and lust is so elusive to me...oh well...such ridiculous questions...

2. Liquor or beer?
Whisky!

3. Night or day?
Night (of the Living Dead)...!

4. One night stands or relationships?
Does it matter? They're all using me for something anyways...

5. TV or internet?
Internet, I guess...that answer will change when the new season of '24' starts up...although I did just start watching 'House' recently which is just a brilliant fucking show...

6. Pepsi or Coke?
I'll have the blow, please...

7. Wild night out or romantic night in?
Night in...alone...with a bottle of whisky...

8. Black or white?
BLACK like the wilted stump I call a heart...

EMOTIONS:
1. Are you happy?
No, I’m at work...

2. Are you talking to anyone right now?
No...

3. Are you eating?
No...

4. Are you German?
I’m only half kraut...and what does this question have to do with emotions?

5. Are you Irish?
Nay...

6. Are you English?
Surely, no...

7. Do you like someone right now?
No one likes me, so why should I like them???

TQFS #8 Answers!

Currently listening to: "Ellytres" by Finntroll

mg and HDD tied on this one with 5 out of 10 correct...!

1. What is the natural substance in chocolate that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love?
B. phenylethylamine
I'm not even sure if endorphamine is a real word/thing...and Nymphetamine is the name of a Cradle of Filth album...

2. When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of how many minutes?
B. 20 minutes

3. Where did the white potato originate?
A. Andes mountains
Wow, no one guessed the correct answer on this one...

4. What is the correct response to the Irish greeting "Top o' the morning to you!"
A. "And the rest of the day to yourself"

5. What is the scientific name for the little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple?
C. Tragus
I've got nothing to say about the tragus, but here's what Wikipedia has to say about the gubernaculum:
The gubernaculum is a fold of peritoneum which attaches to the caudal end of the testes. As the scrotum forms, the gubernaculum causes the descent of the testes through the inguinal canal. In the adult, the vestigal remainder of the gubernaculum is known as the "scrotal ligament". In the female, the remnant is the round ligament of uterus...

6. The feet account for what percentage of the human body's bones?
B. 25%

7. What is banana oil actually made of?
C. Petroleum

8. What was the first drug ever to be marketed in tablet form?
A. Bayer Aspirin

9. Ancient artists of which country would never paint pictures of women's feet?
C. China
Ya know, Cinderella was originally a Chinese folktale... The Chinese have a weird thing about binding the feet of girls...it keeps the feet small and unusuable...so they can't run away...

10. How many tons of reddish-green paint does it take to coat the Eiffel Tower?
C. 300 tons
mg was the only one who got this right...

Six Weird Things...

Currently listening to: "Nottingham Lace" by Buckethead

The trivia answers will be up a bit later

Got this one from Yasamin who got it from...someone... The rule listed below is appearing in its original form, unedited...posted so I wouldn't seem lame...or whatever... I'm not going to be calling out 6 people because I probably only have (at most) six readers...so do what thou may...

Here are the rules: Each player of this game starts with the "6 Weird Things about You." People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says 'you are tagged' in their comments and tell them to read your blog!"

And my response to this is...only 6?...amateurs...wait, how graphic are we allowed to make this? Hehehe...OK, here's the mild version:

1. I'm a misanthropic, evil troll with a black and wilted stump for a heart...I wear black to work (including black socks and underwear), have long hair, two (not visible) tattoos, and I listen to mostly metal whilst I reside in the cubicle at said job...and what do I do for a living? I work in product development at a children's entertainment company where we mainly handle girls properties and I'm constantly surrounded by pink merchandse. I just pitched an idea for air fresheners today based on one of our main properties...it was well received...

2. Hey, speaking of those tattoos, my first one was of a cartoon porcupine I used to draw in Junior High and High School...it's below the belly-button area and on my right side and lines up with my underwear line so it looks like he's popping out of my underwear... The second is on the right side of my calf on my right leg...it's of the grim reaper holding an hour glass. I could tell you the meaning of the tattoos and why I placed them where I did, but eh...that would make for a long ass post...and I'm lazy... Next up are either zombies or trolls...or zombie trolls...

3. I have a really bad OCD where if I'm leaving my area of the house for an extended period of time (like to go to work), I unplug everything before I leave...turn off and unplug the power strip, unplug any appliances, even unplug the clocks...up until recently, I had to reset the time on my clocks whenever I came home...but I needed to buy a new clock radio thingie and bought this keen RCA clock/radio/cd player that has a sensor that picks up the time from the airwaves and also stores my alarm settings...

4. I hate driving large cars like pickup trucks, but I do have a fantasy about owning an ice cream truck. I want to drive down neighborhood streets at 5 miles per hour whilst blasting White Zombie out the loudpseaker...

5. I interned at Miramax in the TV/Airline department (aka: censorship)...me, of all people in censorship department. I read scripts (and looked at some storyboards) for films about to go into production and flagged stuff for alternate coverage, but mainly watched a lot of films to flag things to make edits on. I didn't actually do the editing... I got to see some cool stuff before it came out, but the majority of the films I watched were pre-existing Miramax movies sold to network TV and to airline for in-flight movies (hence the title of the department)...that's how I ended up watching "I Got the Hookup" about 6 times... Speaking of Miramax, I also helped out a friend in the home video department there and worked on DVD chapter stops (scene selections) for about 30 titles...most were acquisitions of the foreign and/or sci-fi nature...but out of the more well-known titles, I did "The Great Raid" (the theatrical cut DVD version...although they did use my stops as the template for the Director's cut) and "Sharkboy and Lava-Girl" (they gave my chapter stops to Robert Rodriguez and he adjusted them to his liking...I never got to meet him, though)...

6. I have a mannequin at my desk at work that I dress up in our company's pink, girly product combined with things I bring from home like gas masks, a hockey mask, a noose... I pulled her from our offsite storage to use at a trade show, but no one wanted to use her because she looked too realistic and hence, scary (they ended up using those headless, quadrapelegic male and female torsos instead)...since nobody wanted her, I kept her at my desk and plan to take her with me if I leave the company...her name is Angie.

Trivia Quiz For Squiggle #8

Currently listening to: "Go to Hell!" by GWAR

CORRECTION MADE: Doug brought it to my attenion that #5 had two "B" answers when "Tragus" should have been listed as "C" instead of another "B"...but that all doesn't matter now, I guess, because I fixed it...

All mixed up again this time...

1. What is the natural substance in chocolate that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love?
A. nymphetamine
B. phenylethylamine
C. endorphamine

2. When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of how many minutes?
A. 20 seconds
B. 20 minutes
C. 20 hours

3. Where did the white potato originate?
A. Andes mountains
B. The Alps
C. Mount St. Helens

4. What is the correct response to the Irish greeting "Top o' the morning to you!"
A. "And the rest of the day to yourself"
B. "Isn't it grand"
C. "God be with you"

5. What is the scientific name for the little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple?
A. Gubernaculum
B. Satorius
C. Tragus

6. The feet account for what percentage of the human body's bones?
A. 15%
B. 25%
C. 35%

7. What is banana oil actually made of?
A. Plantains
B. Kerosene
C. Petroleum

8. What was the first drug ever to be marketed in tablet form?
A. Bayer Aspirin
B. Tylenol Aspirin
C. Advil Ibuprofen

9. Ancient artists of which country would never paint pictures of women's feet?
A. Greece
B. Turkey
C. China

10. How many tons of reddish-green paint does it take to coat the Eiffel Tower?
A. 45 tons
B. 175 tons
C. 300 tons

TQFS #7 Answers

Currently listening to: "Bag It" by Peaches

The high score for this installment was High Desert Diva with a score of 7/10...then Doug with 6/10, followed by mg with 5/10... And OK, so HDD admittedly 'cheated' on the last question, but there's something to be said for honesty, ja?

1. A bibliophile is:
A. A collector of rare books
I was actually kind of hoping somebody would've guessed "Jesus freak" as the answer...

2. The term anthropophagy refers to:
B. Cannibalism

3. “Kemo sabe” means what in Navajo?
A. Soggy shrub

4. The first Hummer manufactured for civilian use was sold in what year?
B. 1992
And yes, it was bought by Arnold

5. How many bottles did Coca Cola sell in its first year?
A. 25!!!
And now they're one of the largest corporations out there...go figure...

6. In 4000BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from what?
C. The crushed shells of beetles
Yeccchh...beetles on the eyes...

7. The condom was invented in the early 1500’s and was originally made of what?
B. Linen
Yup, it all started with linen...seems like that would've been uncomfortable...and American money is printed on linen...so if you're ever in a bind... ... ...ewww...

8. In what country did Russian dressing originate?
B. United States
Americans are also responsible for the Swiss steak, the hamburger, and chop suey...

9. What is an albumen?
A. The white part of an egg

10. A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time and lasts for:
C. 1/100 of a second

For some reason I can't get that song "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell out of my head...

PMS!

Currently listening to: "Burn in Hell" by Mercyful Fate

In my office, PMS can relate to TWO things...the first one is the obvious one, especially since I work with a lot of women and gay men...the second might not be as obvious as PMS also stands for Pantone Matching System. Pantone is a standard in the industry I work in and they create guides for more accurate communication of color in artwork. So if I want a specific shade of brown to go on a product and PMS469C is my desired color, then I communicate "PMS469C" to whomever I'm directing the orders to so I don't have to say "Could you make like a chocolatey brown, but try to make it fall somehwere between the color of milk chocolate and dark chocolate...?"... Nothing would ever get done (correctly), so the PMS is actually very helpful. What gets me is that some licensees give us the PMS callout number, but then they also come up with ridiculous names for the colors as well...and it's not like dark brown, light pink, or anything like that... Listed below are some names I've come across recently on product submissions and I've also listed 'common terms' to describe what the color actually is:
FIRE BLADE RED - it's really just your typical fire engine red
VANILLA GLASS - standard creme color
SAGE LAGUME - greyish green
VIOLET PASSION - red wine colored
WINTER APRICOT - a dull, dingy orange color
YELLOW STAR - a dull, dingy yellow color
VALLEJO TAN - dark khaki
BISCOTTI - beige
BABY FRENCH TERRY - dull pink
LIME SPLENDOR - it's just green
ALLEY PINK - interestingly enough, 'Alley Pink' has the same shade of 'the good kind of pink' if you know what I mean...

There's an endless supply of weird color names out there, but these were the most interesting recent ones...

Trivia Quiz For Squiggle #7

Currently listening to: "Tonight in Flames" by Cradle of Filth

I'll post the answers sometime tomorrow afternoon (or maybe even the early evening) so everyone will have a chance to take the quiz...

1. A bibliophile is:
A. A collector of rare books
B. A collector of fine liquor
C. A Jesus freak

2. The term anthropophagy refers to:
A. The study of homosexuality
B. Cannibalism
C. The examination of human remains

3. “Kemo sabe” means what in Navajo?
A. Soggy shrub
B. Sea salt
C. White storm

4. The first Hummer manufactured for civilian use was sold in what year?
A. 1989
B. 1992
C. 1996

5. How many bottles did Coca Cola sell in its first year?
A. 25
B. 125
C. 250

6. In 4000BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from what?
A. Desert sand
B. Silt deposits from the Nile
C. The crushed shells of beetles

7. The condom was invented in the early 1500’s and was originally made of what?
A. Lamb skin
B. Linen
C. Goat intestine

8. In what country did Russian dressing originate?
A. Italy
B. United States
C. France

9. What is an albumen?
A. The white part of an egg
B. An undescended testicle
C. A type of mushroom that only grows in Antarctica

10. A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time and lasts for:
A. Half a second
B. 1/10 of a second
C. 1/100 of a second

Famous Drag Queen...

Currently listening to: "Dysfunctional Doll" by Skumlove

Found this quiz cuz of Yasamin. These kinda things take up too much space on my MySpace page...there's already so much shite on there...so I'm posting it here instead...and when I pasted their 'safe HTML' as well as their 'not so safe?' HTML versions, it came out looking all fucked up...so that's why it looks different...I'm even posting all the questions and my answers!...I'm Divine!



1. What gender are you? - Male
2. How are you built? - Slip of a girly boy
3. What's your drag look? - Terror
4. What decade's clothes od you prefer to dress in? - Contemporary
5. Where do you get your clothes? - Thrift stores, discard bins, whatever I make myself
6. What music do you like? - Rock out
7. How do you want people to respond when they see you? - Fear
8. Where will we see you perform? - A B-Movie
9. What word describes you best? - Angry
10. What's your ideal job? - Musician
11. In you act, you are... - Playing a role. You're really an actor.

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OK in my Book...!

Currently listening to: "Rise" by Korpiklaani

The trivia answers are two posts down!

I have no idea who the Eagles of Death Metal are (which is a pretty fucking stupid name, but whatever) other than what I just read in the News section of MTV.com. Apparently they opened one show (in Cleveland) on the current Guns N' Roses tour and then left the tour after that night... The current tour also features a burlesque show by the Suicide Girls before the first band hits the stage (by what I heard, at a previous GNR show the Suicide Girls filled in the gaps between sets to keep the crowd entertained which I thought was a smart move)...and people were booing SG in Cleveland! Well, this odd occurrence made EODM frontman Jesse Hughes realize something which led him to pull his band fro mthe tour:

"I saw people booing the Suicide Girls," he said, referring to the inked and pierced goth pinups who served as one of the night's other openers. "A rock show booing hot naked chicks is not a rock show — it's a freak show. And now I'm just sorry we won't be touring with the Suicide Girls every day."

Even if the EODM's music sucks sweaty, unshaven ass, Jesse Hughes is OK in my book...!

I'm Not Your Performing Monkey!

Currently listening to: "Decadent & Desperate" by Mortiis

I've been listening to all sorts of music all morning long that has made me think back to experiences at concerts...everything from the giant circle pit that took up the whole arena floor at the sole trek of The Pledge of Allegiance tour to that guy (who looked like he was) in his mid-40's that was jumping around like a kangaroo on speed at a Cranberries concert (remember that, Doug?)...

One thing that kind of pisses me off at concerts is when the performers onstage ask the crowd to do stuff...everything from clapping along to a beat, to jumping up and down at a certain point, to rushing the arena floor, to getting your middle fingers in the air, to singing along (or singing the words instead of the vocalist saying anything)... I'm not YOUR performing monkey, bitches! You are MY performing monkey! I'm paying YOU to jump and dance and sing... Personally, most of the time I just stand there and observe...I like seeing how the people perform, how they play the guitar parts, and all that jazz...

At the recent Blessed concert I went to, another AZ band called Element A440 opened...they were OK at some points, really bad others...and they took so long to setup and to fix their technical difficulties...and to tune a guitar in the middle of the set...but that's besides the point... I was right up front and towards the end of their set, the vocalist made a b-line for me at a part in the song where he was just screaming and fuckin' SCREAMED in my face for what seemed like forever...and I was just standing there...not knowing what to do...and, of course, not really wanting to do anything anyways...did he expect me to scream along or something? I can only imagine the look on my face as I was thinking in my head "Why are you screaming in my face?"...I know, an odd question to think to one's self at a rock concert, but still...I'm not his performing monkey and I'm not going to do something just because someone tells me to or because they're trying to get a reaction out of me... When he was done he just kind of patted my head like you would a dog when it obeys orders...then went about finishing the rest of the song...and I was still just standing there...thinking about how the first thing I would do when I got home would be to wash my hair...

TQFS #6 Answers!

Currently listening to: "The Man Comes Around (Demo)" by Johnny Cash

Added @ 2:42PM, today, 12/06/06:
My apologies to Doug! I forgot to list who got the high score this week...who was, if you haven't figured it out by now, Doug!...and he got the highest TQFS score so far...7 out of 10! OK, now here are the answers:

1. When was "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" released?
B. April 1st ,1992
And no, I'm not going to say "April Fool's!" at the end of this comment...Doug did have a very good take on why C would be a reasonable answer.

2. According to the "F-Zero" manual, what year were the F-Zero races started?
C. 2560
Hehe...I put 2525 down as a possible answer because that's a reference to the short-lived Raimi/Tapert-produced "Cleopatra 2525" series...which was really bad but it had Gina Torres in it...and she's hot...great voice, too...and, yes, 'twenty exty six' was a reference to STINKO MAN!

3. Which is the name of one of the Ice Climbers in the NES game of the same name?
B. Popo
Look out for tha popo, yo!

4. What is the name of the viking who has the ability to jump in "The Lost Vikings"?
A. Erik the Swift

5. The story behind "Adventure Island" for the NES is that an evil witch doctor has kidnapped which Princess?
A. Leilani
And all the names of all the choices for this question are also the names of porn stars!

6. In "Star Fox" for the SNES, your mission is to defeat which evil emperor?
C. Andross

7. What was the soundtrack intended to resemble in the game "Asteroids"?
A. A heartbeat

8. "Centipede" was created by two programmers. One was veteran Ed Logg, who had also created "Asteroids". What was relatively unique at the time about Logg's collaborator on the game?
A. The collaborator was a woman

9. Which of these games featured an air pump as the main weapon?
B. Dig Dug
I held the Dig Dug high score on the plug n' play Atari thingie we had at Miramax...that and my high score on Galaga were my only claims to fame there...how sad...

10. What kind of animal is Blathers, who runs the museum, in "Animal Crossing"?
C. Owl

The Legend of Hamster

Currently listening to: "Jumalten Kaupunki/Tuhatvuotinen Perintö" by Moonsorrow

Live action hamster video game video!
The trivia is below this post...

Trivia Quiz For Squiggle #6

Currently listening to: "Sea of Expanding Shapes" by Buckethead

I hope you all like video game trivia...and if you don't, then too bad cuz that's what you're getting this week! Haha! The next batch will be a mixed bag...

1. When was "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" released?
A. February 14th, 1992
B. April 1st ,1992
C. November 29, 1992

2. According to the "F-Zero" manual, what year were the F-Zero races started?
A. 2525
B. 20X6
C. 2560

3. Which is the name of one of the Ice Climbers in the NES game of the same name?
A. Pluto
B. Popo
C. Pringle

4. What is the name of the viking who has the ability to jump in "The Lost Vikings"?
A. Erik the Swift
B. Olaf the Stout
C. Baleog the Fierce

5. The story behind "Adventure Island" for the NES is that an evil witch doctor has kidnapped which Princess?
A. Leilani
B. Kaylani
C. Leanni

6. In "Star Fox" for the SNES, your mission is to defeat which evil emperor?
A. Quorthos
B. Porthos
C. Andross

7. What was the soundtrack intended to resemble in the game "Asteroids"?
A. A hearbeat
B. Voodoo drums
C. A cricket chirping

8. "Centipede" was created by two programmers. One was veteran Ed Logg, who had also created "Asteroids". What was relatively unique at the time about Logg's collaborator on the game?
A. The collaborator was a woman
B. The collaborator was a 13 year old boy
C. The collaborator was on the other side of the country from Logg. The two men passed code between each other over modems and did not actually meet until the game was ready for production

9. Which of these games featured an air pump as the main weapon?
A. Tempest
B. Dig Dug
C. Wabbit

10. What kind of animal is Blathers, who runs the museum, in "Animal Crossing"?
A. Alligator
B. Chipmunk
C. Owl

White & Nerdy

Currently listening to: "White & Nerdy" by Weird Al

I was watching this video (I think I'm done with my air freshener presentation work for the night) and since Yasamin shared the "Shoes" video, I thought I'd post this one...it's just brilliant...


The above video is one of the better ones from YouTube...but I think the image quality is better over at iFilm.

The Evening So Far...

Currently listening to: The South Park WoW episode playing in the background

I just deleted two posts and it's not because I'm giving in on anything...and I feel I had a very valid point, but that's not really the blog I want this to be... I'm just here to talk about stupid shit like zombies (which are fuckin' awesome), Gwyneth Paltrow, and the green cape from Swan Lake...and trivia... Speaking of which, I will have trivia on Tuesday...

I bought air fresheners today...pine scented ones for our fake XXX-Mas tree at home...the scent of which has spread all throughout the house...and it actually smells like the shampoo I use to clean the carpet in my car... I also bought character themed ones...Hello Kitty in two varieties (rectangular cardboard and molded figure), Dora the Explorer (rectangular cardboard), and a generic rectangular and sorta die cut cupcake scented one...I needed them as visual aides... I've been spending the majority of my evening trying to come up with a pitch for air fresheners as a product at work...of course, it would depend on if my work liked the idea and then if a licensee would actually want to do it...but yeah, just looking through style guides whilst various TV shows ramble on in the background...picking out sample poses that could work with my idea and going through the packaging guidelines to sketch up some mock packaging on the back of the envelopes to my bills... I may be doing some Photoshop work during my lunch break tomorrow at work...

It's not my ideal way of spending an evening at home, but I feel like if I can submit any idea that actually gets made, then I'll have made my mark in some way...that actually sounds lame as I read that back...but it's interesting to walk into a store and see something you had a part in making that's readily available to the public and you know that there's somebody out there who's actually going to buy it. In case whoever reads this didn't know, I did chapter stops (scene selections) on about 30 films for DVD...my first was a flick starring Christopher Lambert! ...and I have several of those titles in my collection... Whenever I go to Best Buy or Circuit City I always see something I worked on...it's a trip. We haven't done air fresheners at my current gig and I think we'd have many advantages given our characters and themes... Sure, I've approved product that will be on shelves next year, but there's a different feeling when it's something you helped bring to the table...so, yup yup, in case you were wondering what I do with my free time, the mystery is solved...!

"In Defense" of Gwyneth Paltrow

Currently listening to:: "It Takes People Like You to Make People Like Me" by Buck Owens

Yeah, I almost can't believe the headline I just wrote...but here's a story from IMDB.com today:
Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow's recent comments branding Americans as not as civilized or intelligent as their English counterparts has sparked fury in her homeland. The Los Angeles born actress made her remarks to a Portuguese newspaper last weekend, and almost immediately radio stations across America were besieged with angry callers regarding the Shakespeare In Love beauty's comments. She says, "I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans. I love the English lifestyle. I'm not as capitalistic as America." However, one caller blasted back saying, "If she feels that way we are far better off without her."

I think people are forgetting one key part to what she first said: "The BAD side of American psychology." Granted, I can see how what she says after that could ruffle some feathers...but we Americans need to realize that we're not the best in the world....at everything...even if we'd like to think we are. We may just be the most powerful nation and (not that I've lived in any other country but) I almost don't see how life could be any better anywhere else (and I dig capitalism...we should all enjoy the fruits of our own labors), but we do have this certain quantity over quality attitude which leads to greed which leads to screwing other people over one way or another...and that's the same attitude that ruined BETA as a general consumer product, despite that it's the better home video format. So you see, we have our flaws... And we do still have a lot of prejudice towards people just because of the color of their silly human suits or sexual orientation or whatever...which I'm sure they have in the UK as well, and i may be wrong, but I get the impression that people treat each other over there based on class and not because of race or who they like to bump uglies with...this all sort of reminds me of something I heard in a movie or TV show where someone asked a British guy if he was gay...the Brit responded with "No, I'm British" to which the inquisitor replied "Isn't that the same thing?"...sorry, Squiggle...I mean no offense...

Anyways, who gives a fuck if Gwyneth Paltrow said this shit? What's there to get riled up about? She found a way of life that suits her better and it looks like she's going to carry on with it. She's not hurting anyone. If I said the same thing and it happened to be printed in some random newspaper, I highly doubt anyone would care. So go waste your hate on something more worthwhile, folks... I swear, all this shite going on in the world and people care about that Gwyneth Paltrow likes it better cavorting with the Queen's subjects than we on the other side of the pond...and in a way can you blame her? British humour is funnier and their metal is far above and beyond most American bands. Although I did snicker a little when she said "I'm not as capitalistic as America"...OK, giving her the benefit of the doubt, one could argue whether or not she is AS capitalistic AS America, but when you're a famous, wealthy movie actress and you're married to a "rock" star, that's pretty damn capitalistic...

The Dreams in Which I'm Dying are the Best I've Ever Had

Currently listening to: "Spot the Psycho" by Cornbugs

This is about a thought I've had for a while and it's not often that I talk to people about dreams, but with the reappearance (in my life) of the Gary Jules cover of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World" due to the XBOX360 game Gears of War, it brought up this idea/feeling in my mind again...

The line in the song implies that death is more of a release from the, well, mad world...but I'm taking this from the standpoint that a dream about dying would be a bad thing... Now, I would actually rather have a bad dream than a good dream. I've had some gnarly near-death, plummeting to my death, being chased by people who want to kill me, family members dying, etc, dreams and those are always bitchin' to wake up from because everything is OK when your consciousness snaps back into reality. In a "good" dream one experiences a wide variety of the unfathomable, the magical, the impossible...or perhaps just the out of reach...you fly, have super strength, are rich, get laid...but when you wake up from that shite it's all gone...what's the good in that? Once I had a dream (when I was in elementary school) where I had a suitcase full of foreign money - from ALL over the world...and you know how some foreign money can have a large number on the bill but then it only exchanges into a few U.S. bucks, ja? Well, for whatever reason in the dream it was legal in the U.S. to pay for stuff with foreign money and the currency amount printed on the money had to translate into U.S. dollars one for one...so 10,000 yen would be 10,000 dollars. I was rich...! Then my ass woke up...and I wasn't rich... ... ...not to say that being rich would necessarily make me happy and it's not like I'm poor, but that's still a shitty dream to wake up from....

TQFS #5 Answers

Currently listening to: "Morning (Peer Gynt)" by Edvard Grieg

Yasamin pulls in the highest score so far with 7 out of 10 correct...and Doug was a close second with 6. And Yasamin, many thanks for the birthday e-card! It's one of the best cards I've ever received...no bullshit...!

1. Adjusting for inflation, Cleopatra (1963), is the most expensive movie ever made to date. Its budget of $44 million is equivalent to:
B. $270 million
And that was one good-looking movie...as with all the Roman epics of that era in movie history, this movie was too damn long, but I love those old movies. No digital effects, no digital sets, extras, whatever...all the magic had to happen on the set...hmmm...

2. Although identified with Scotland, bagpipes are actually a very ancient instrument, introduced into the British Isles by:
A. The Romans

3. Bette Midler, Barry Manilow and many other famous vocalists got their start in a New York City club called:
A. The Continental Baths
CBGBs is probably the only NY club that I know of...so I was kind of throwing it in there for fun and kind of because I was too lazy to look up the name of another actual club in NYC...and I don't know if there's a Riviera club in New York, but it sounded kind of good...wasn't that the name of one of the casinos in Vegas Stakes?

4. How many Oscars did Walt Disney receive between 1931 and 1969?
C. 35

5. Who is the first character to speak in Star Wars?
A. C3PO

6. What was the name of Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s fish in Star Trek: The Next Generation?
B. Livingston

7. Donald Duck’s middle name is:
A. Fauntleroy
Here's what shows up in Wikipedia when you search for Fauntleroy

8. Who was the first Beatle to have a #1 hit single following the group's breakup?
B. George Harrison
With the track "My Sweet Love"

9. What was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969?
C. “Happy Birthday”

10. In 1938 Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel sold all rights to the comic-strip character Superman to their publishers for:
B. $130