I've gotten plenty of comments regarding the Jhonen school desk I did way back in high school, including a few comments from people saying that they would buy it from me. Since it's been about four or so years since I made it, I've grown less and less attached to it, and wouldn't mind selling it now.

The reason why? Well yesterday, I got in a car accident, and this time, I'll have to pay for the repairs myself. If the damage estimate is anything like last time I wrecked, then it's gonna cost me an arm and a leg. In other words, around $3000 to $4000 likely, although I won't know for sure until I get an estimate done. Right now I only have about half the amount I need, and the only way I currently have of getting the money is by earning it at my job, which is almost minimum wage.

You can see where I'm going with this. I've never needed money more in my life than I do right now, so if anyone out there is still interested in buying the desk from me then feel free to either leave a comment here, or if you want to be more private about it, email me at edge_0f_blue@yahoo.com . I'll have to do some minor touch-ups to it, since it's been sitting in my garage for a long time gathering dust, but to my knowledge it's still in pretty good condition. I will also have to decide how I'll go about selling it/auctioning it off.

Depending on the amount of comments and emails I get from people, I'll either set a price, or set up a way to auction it. Judging by the amount of people who read this journal though...it will probably go the first way, unless I figure out something else. So anyways, drop me a line if you're serious about it, and if you need to see photos then you know where to look, obviously. If I get any takers, I'll do the touch-ups on it, and then post new photos so you guys can be sure of its condition.

-Dan

EDIT: To clear up any confusion, I'm not charging $3,000 to $4,000 for the desk....that's just the amount it cost to repair my car. The desk would probably go for somewhere between $500 and $1000.

Well well well, I came back from Florida last night, and decided to check dA again for the first time in days this morning. Predictably, I had a shitpot full of deviations to browse on my watch, 200-something I believe, but when I clicked the link to view them, something oh-so-mysterious happened. They disappeared! And according to dA I didn't have any to view on my watch, as if I deleted all of them at once. So, I'm somewhat frustrated, because hey, checking out stuff on dA has been routine for me, for the longest time, and there is obviously something up when I go from 250 deviations or so to zero in one click. I tried logging out and logging back in, and then even the link saying I had stuff to view was gone. All it says I have up at the top is 24 messages. Has dA been buggy for anyone else lately?

I decided I will check back tomorrow and if I'm still having the same problem, I'm sending a message to an admin. Something I've never done, because I'm a lazy piece of shit that doesn't participate in the dA community, but seriously, this will not fly. lol. I WILL NOT BE STARVED OF MY LIFE-SUSTAINING ADDICTION. TO ART!!

Anywho, in other news, the new cell phone I just got like two weeks ago is useless now. The first one I had for a while (that most people have seen) went missing and I never found it back, although I suspect it's hiding around Cassandra's house somewhere. The replacement phone I got for that (a rather nice flip phone) got soda on it. To make a long story short, I went on a delivery for work last week, had to bring a large soda in a styrofoam cup along as part of the delivery, and put it in my cup holder. An unwound paperclip in the cup holder poked a hole in the styrofoam cup and started leaking without me knowing. My new phone was in the cup holder....you figure out the rest.

So yeah, until I cobble the money together for a new phone, I shall be phoneless for a week or two. Although I should still have the same number. Just a heads-up for all three or so people who read this journal.

I believe there's less than a month (right?) until college. For me. Not for all you losers who are stuck on the semester system. JUST kidding! Better get some last minute plans together before SCAD consumes my life again for 2 or so months...

Is it just me, or was anyone else heavily disappointed with the 3rd X-Men movie?

I realize I'm a bit late bringing up the topic, but due to numerous circumstances I wasn't able to see the movie myself until today.

Anyways, I'm not going to pin all the blame on Brett Ratner like so many other disgruntled fans have been doing, but (warning, spoilers)...





sorry, killing off THREE main characters, all in the same movie, just infuriates me. I'm still reeling from the fact that Charles Xavier was actually killed in the movie, and Cyclops was discarded like some cheap afterthought. Maybe they were thinking, "hey, if this is the last movie in the series, we can do whatever the fuck we want with it," but damn, the way they handled it all is insulting. And now that I think about it, the fact that the most emotional moments from the movie were the result of these characters' deaths seems really cheap on the writers' parts. Yeah, the drama of it all knocked me over, but I still feel cheated here. I heard that besides the big director switch, most of the same crew members were involved in production, so if the first two movies were pretty good, wtf happened? I may not be a filmmaker, but I mean come ON, couldn't this movie have been handled better? I didn't really have a problem with the plot itself...but it really should have been expanded on. Mostly everything is briefly touched on and that's it, and not much is developed for the plot's sake. Probably the biggest problem I had with the plot was the whole Dark Phoenix thing...but I won't go into that.

Just know that one of my most anticipated events of the past few months has been fucked, and the fact that this is supposedly the last X-Men movie makes it even worse. I'm sorry guys, but I'm totally and completely disappointed here. The eye-candy was all there and in abundance, but the heart wasn't. =/ In the end, this could have been SO much better.

Maybe other people with lower expectations will like the movie more, God knows I wanted to. Part of me still likes it, for the mere fact that it's there, and it's X-Men. The other part that appreciates a good movie....well, just forget it.

Good ol' ~seenew tagged me with this, and I had to tell 6 weird things about myself. I'm not so great with coming up with random facts off the top of my head, but here it goes:

1. When I walk up a staircase, instead of going up one step or two steps with both feet, I usually go up two steps with my left foot, and one step with my right foot. Not always, but most of the time.

2. Sometimes I'll wake up, sort of, but I'll be completely out of it and not fully aware of what's going on around me, and then go back to sleep. When this happens I may hallucinate and see things, usually on the wall. It might be something on a poster that appears to be moving when it really isn't, for example. Once not too long ago this happened in the middle of a nap when Steve and Sam were in the room. I was half-awake and was staring at the image on Sam's Giger calendar and the babies in the image appeared to be moving...I pointed at it and just mumbled something...Sam and Steve were confused, and when I woke up later I vaguely recalled the incident and asked them about it.

3. Not sure how it happened, but I developed a habit of sitting down in the shower instead of standing, I guess because it's more comfortable. Am I the only person who does this?

4. If I'm driving down an empty two-lane country road, and I'm bored, I sometimes swerve into the opposite lane, and back into my lane, back and forth. I only do this if i'm at a straight part in the road, and there's no other cars around. So I'm not a complete idiot.

5. I sometimes associate songs with strange visuals. Not like synesthesia, but the elements or mood of a track can make me think of certain things. Ex: "Kaleidoscope" by Trafik makes me think of a funkyass breakdancing robot The beginning of "Fundamental" by Sasha...sounds like a bullet train leaving a cold, dark station, and as the song progresses it's like being inside a huge robotic factory with moving mechanical parts everywhere.

6. I have a lot of trouble remembering to clip my toe nails. I'm getting better about it because I'm wearing sandals more often now, but there would be times a while ago when I'd sometimes go for like two or three months without clipping them, and my mom was the one who would tell me to do it. lol.

And now I get to tag other people with it! I choose:

~DRKPR0PH3T (Sam)
~vergeofsanity
~kittiekat

If there's one thing that annoys me more than anything when I'm browsing comments on deviantArt, it's when stupid anime fangrils (yeah, misspelled that on purpose) reply saying how they think some guy character looks so "smexy." God, WHO MADE UP THAT FUCKING WORD???? It's bad enough that they use infamous phrases like "OMGWTFBBQ" trying to be cute in some retarded spontaneous way....and it's NOT working, but "smexy" really takes the cake. I hope the next so-called "smexy" bishie character is drawn jumping off a cliff, so all of these gullible idiot fangrils can follow suit. Trust me, outside of your own little world of fangril pals, NOBODY thinks you're cute by saying those things.

Heh, sorry, had to blow off some steam there.

Not really a worthwhile update....the first entry in more than a year. I promise I won't be pissed off in next year's annual bullshit journal entry.