Friday's Notetaking Session at the coffee shop

     Hi.  Some kid went on the attack, calling me 'Dirk Homoflash' instead of Dirk Wampaflash.  Well, that was the first line he said, then he got onto another account, and did the same thing.
     The result was that I put him on my Ignore list for both of his characters.  
     His squad name said he was in 'Jessica Transwalk's Squad', so for him the attack was personal.
     Maybe it was her brother, or friend.
     Jessica is the girl who imposed her religion on me, trying to bring her religion to Star Wars, and building her church on an Asteroid lot.
     There is nothing wrong with that, but to impose her beliefs on me I didn't like much.
     It's all just fun and games, folks.
     I was mean in the video I made of her, calling her a 'cunt', among other things.
     Then my friend told her that I made the video, and I knew some heat was going to come my way.

     Anyway, I'm at the cafe, taking a break from my 'studio of chaos'.
     I haven't painted in some time, I'm going to have to do something about that.  I have no room to work.  I could paint here, but it is usually only good for an hour, and it is a big mess to set it up, and to clean it up, and there is no point unless I can make a video of it all.

     I don't know what I am doing anymore, but I sure am enjoying my free time.  I like my free time every day to do what I want.
     Last night I saw Guillermo del Toro's 'Cronos' ( 1993 ).

    
     It was pretty good.  Not necessarily my cup of tea.  I'm not going to run around the streets telling everyone to see it.  There were some scenes that were pretty gross.  Preparing the dead body for the funeral was kind of fascinating to watch, and repulsive at the same time, but it wasn't too bad.  I just don't like needles into skin very much, even if it is fake.  I feel the pain.  I'm still cringing from it the next day.
     I also saw some movie about Merlin, called 'Merlin and The War of The Dragons'.  It was a pretty lousy movie, but was watchable enough to keep me fascinated about how bad it was.  Yet, it was consistent in it almost being professional, but not quite.  It's like a stupid t.v. movie, and sometimes those are fun to watch.
     I would put the picture from that movie up, but they didn't have one on wikipedia, and I'm too lazy to look beyond that.  It's not worth it.  Go look it up yourself if you are that interested.
     It tried to be epic, but they didn't have enough extras.  There was no blood, and the sword trick of shoving the sword in between the arm and torso was used multiple times.
     One girl was cute, and one wasn't especially cute.
     The acting was average, like just putting a bunch of your friends in the film.
     The whole movie was a hack job, but they had someone do some pretty cool dragons.  The wings were not big enough to support the weight of the dragons, though.  Wings on a dragon have to be huge, and I ain't kidding, otherwise, there is no way in hell they could fly.
     So, it was pretty bad.  Also, they didn't do much with framing the composition of the shots.  Lot of close-ups, though, on people you didn't care too much apart.
     I also don't know how they got such nice haircuts back then.
     The filmmakers tried to put in some young people to make it appealing to audiences in that young vampire kind of way, and it almost worked.
     Nothing will make this film good.
     There were plenty of opportunities for comedy, though.  I just wanted the actors to say something funny, or to go beyond the staged lines somehow.  When you are making a movie that bad, what does it matter?  I just wanted them to talk like they normally would.  The whole movie was staged, to not great effect.
     Yet, it shows that anybody can make a movie.  Just write a script, get your friends together, and have fun.  Nothing to it.

     It's another Friday, but it was good watching movies and playing video games last night.  I had a good time just doing my thing.

     I have to get a job, though.  I am unemployed, and there is no demand for my artwork, so I have to figure out something.
     I can make some rad videos, that would be fun.  Maybe I can get good at doing those.  It helps to have good ideas, though.
     I make 'guerrilla warfare' videos.  I just go in there, do my thing, and get out.

* * *

     I try and imagine this area of San Francisco as the scene for a science fiction locale, or something medieval all the time.  I try to change reality with my mind, because I want real life to be better than it actually is.
     Most film making is all about pretend and make-believe.
     Reality is sooooo boring, that people need to be entertained All The Time.  That is about all I can figure out.

* * *

     I could talk about my oldest brother, but I don't want to bore anybody.  I want to talk about him because he weighs my mind down.  It's a mix of him doing it on purpose, and him not knowing what he is doing.
     It is much easier for me not to have contact with him.
     His mind actually does make sense in his own way, it's just not very practical or realistic.  He has a combination of religion and fantasy things going for him, almost as if he is a fictional character.
     The thinking lately is that he is from another dimension, and that the real version of him is out of place there.  The only solution is to switch them back, but I don't know if that is possible.
     It would be okay to base a fictional character on him, because he is already that.
     Otherwise, I don't know what to do with him, he doesn't make too much sense to me, and he seems out of place in this world.
     Sorry, Johnny, but the world isn't going to hand you everything on a silver platter.
     Too bad, but life isn't like that.

* * *
     Anyway, it is a nice day.  I'm a little late for things.  I'm caught up with my video making work, I'm just thinking of what I'm going to do next, and how I am going to do it.
     I need some funding, though.


     All I want to do is to have dialogues between two characters.  I would like to do male and female characters talking, but it is not easy to get a girl to do the female voice.  Maybe if I get a good written piece together, I can get a girl to read the voice. 
     I have found that you have to do the writing, because people freeze up during the impromptu, and don't know what to say next, even we say that stuff everyday, and with ease, because we are comfortable doing so.
     Therefore, I have to write a script.
     The ancient Greeks considered the dialogue to be the highest form of art, and that idea has intrigued me for some time.
     Now that I have the tools, I can make stuff like that happen.
     Cool, huh?

* * *
     Good times, watching movies, playing video games, I have some life going for me.
     Nice to hang out with my friend and talk about whatever comes to mind.
     It's a nice day.
     The coffee shop is a nice place to congregate, and it restores mana and energy.
     One of the reasons I come here is to get my blood going, hear some music, look at some girls, and be involved in life, rather than just be an observer of it.
     To participate is fun.

     I've never been the most social of people, I'm trying to fix that. 
     Have you ever noticed that when people are really nice to you, it is because they want something from you?
     Homeless people do it all the time, as an example.  They are your best friend in the world until you give them a dollar, and if you give that easily, they will try to get more.

     Anyway, I'm trying to get started with my life, and I don't know how.  It's a tough world out there.

     If only I could make this world into something more fantastic, that would be amazing.

     As a teenager I wanted to see the elves, and live with them like Frodo did.

     Now, I just want the dull thud of reality to go away, and be sent somewhere else.  I don't know where, that is the problem.

     Jack Black is pretty funny, he must have some life going for him.  I like Jack.  He kind of overdoes it sometimes, but he seems to have a lot of life to him.

     I miss John Belushi, but I also miss John Candy.

    

Peace and Quiet on a Thanksgiving Day

     Happy Thanksgiving 2011.  Mine was already ruined by a Pigvlax yesterday.  I had to listen to its psychological baggage, like an invasion into my mind.
     That was no fun for me, so instead of telling you all about it, I will just continue on with my life.
     I'm located in an area of San Francisco called The Mission.  There are lots of aliens here, just like in Babylon 5.

     San Francisco is a good place to be a writer.
     Los Angeles lost its charm for me long ago.
     I feel free here.

     I would imagine it would be a good place to be a writer in Los Angeles during the 40's, where you could just jam out on your typewriter.
     I just don't feel the romance down there.
     The city is a mess.
     It kind of doesn't work.
     Neither does this city.
     Where's the money?
     San Francisco taxes everything it can to help pay for all of those 'cush' jobs.

     Anyway, space is the place.
     I'm sitting here in the cafe.  I have my coffee.  I have my laptop, and it is Thanksgiving. 
     I will pass on the family and the turkey today.  I don't need it.

     All I need is time and a clear mind.

     I made my Darth Maul dance video last night.  It took longer than expected, but I mostly got the results I was looking for.
     Darth Maul dancing is pretty funny.

     I would like to do a Gladys Knight 'Midnight Train to Georgia' featuring Darth Marth.  I'll have to research the dance moves a little. 

     The internet is a little slow in here today.  There are lots of users.

     I might as well be in outer space.  San Francisco is pretty much the same thing.

     San Francisco is kind of a wild west town in space.
     I always like to think that the cantina in Star Wars was influenced by San Francisco bars.  It seems to work.

     People love science fiction.  More and more girls are into it.  They will someday realize that a lot of science fiction  involves women.
     Science Fiction often involves strong female characters that kick ass, so I don't know why women don't like it more.  I guess it is because of the goon factor, but it is a hell of a lot more interesting than hair, make-up, and nails.

     The Simpsons are very popular.  I've been watching Season 3 on dvd.  It is good stuff.  I can't get enough.  Some of the jokes fall flat, but not many.  It's a writer's paradise, that show is.

     Anyway,  I just read the wiki article about The Simpsons.  It was a good article to read, and informative. 
     The voice actors originally got paid $30,000 per episode.  They get a lot more now.  $400,000 for every episode.  That is a lot.  Amazing.  Incredible.  It makes me think about what I am doing with my life.  I can work a month on a painting, and not get paid at all.  Dang.

     Bitch has to get paid, that's my problem.

     Anyway, life is good.  I came in here with the intent of writing about science fiction, but I haven't done too well.  I got distracted with Simpsons stuff, happily, I might add.

     I want to do cartoons and make millions.  That sounds good.  Maybe I will.  My cartoons have to be good, though.  Nothing stopping me.

     I have a good window seat in the cafe, but the sun shines on the screen.  It is annoying that it is the best place in the cafe to write for me, and the sunlight ruins it.  Dang.  From here, I can see both inside and outside, and I really like that.

     I might make the new Darth Maul video of 'midnight train' if my research leads me into doing it for real.  It seems to me like it would be fun and funny to do, if I can nail down some of those dance moves of The Pips, lol.  I used to love watching that stuff, in high contrast to a band jumping around, these guys would just do their dance moves and back-up singing.

     I can barely see the screen now.
     I put up my clipboard in the window sill which creates a shadow so I can see.

     Yes, getting paid seems to be a concern for me.  I don't know how I'm going to live.  I need to create a fan base, and create lots of content.
     I wouldn't mind being a cartoonist.  It's a lot of work, though....but what isn't?  You gotta work hard in order to make anything happen.

     I was never a fan of Futurama.  For me, the show didn't work too well, and I found it unfunny.  I also didn't care about the characters too much.  Did I mention that I found it unfunny?  Also, the computer animation, while it looked cool, really just seemed to be there to make the show look cool.  Something was lost in translation, and it didn't grab me.
     South Park saved me from mediocre cartoons by being one itself, and then being better than a lot of stuff with its own brand of humor, being mostly original in concept and design.  They have their 'making fun of celebrities' thing going, instead of just having guest appearances like in The Simpsons.

     I guess I should do some artwork eventually.  I just haven't cared about doing that much lately, due to lack of interest.
     I'll surprise everybody one of these days.

     Wow, 219,463 hits on my 'relatively new youtube channel'.  It takes time to get it going.  I have so many videos, over 1200, that it would be great if one of my monetized videos went viral.
     Granted, I was late into the game.  I didn't even know how to work a camera when I was making my first videos.  Or just barely enough.
     I still need to learn effects, but those don't matter to me if it doesn't serve the video.  I like the low-tech approach.

     I'm low on coffee.  Maybe I should go home and make some.  Cheaper than here.
     A goal in life is to make enough so I can pay off my daily coffee expenses.

     I've been sitting here in the cafe for hours.  I like to write in here and do research.  It's all a good time.
 
     I wouldn't mind a good turkey sandwich today and some cranberry sauce, but I'll be happy with the basics in my studio.
     It's all I need.

     A good Thanksgiving for me is peace and quiet, dvds, and video games...and some beer.

     Laters.

Darth Maul Dance Update, stupid, but that is what I want to do.

     I just got a new idea for a Darth Maul video, "Midnight Train to Georgia".  That would be pretty funny.
     Meanwhile, I got to film the other new dance video of Maul, which will be sped up.  That should be good.

     The two videos will have two different dance styles.

     I can't wait to do this s**t.  lol.
     I don't care if they come out any good, they will be what they are.

Jeri Ryan and Douglas Adams

     I just read about Jeri Ryan and Douglas Adams on wiki.

     First of all, there seems to be no evidence that Jeri Ryan is a lesbian.

     The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy movie was not very good at all.  The film was pretty much a let-down, while the six part 1980 television series is 'pretty awesome' especially that blonde in the red leather outfit.

     Anyway, Jeri Ryan will always be awesome as '7 of 9'.  I don't care about her as anything else, except that she is smart, and interesting, and I would like to bang her.
     She is one year younger than me, and she is quite the MILF, but is happy married.
     I can still like her, though.
     My interest in her has waned a little over the years, as there are just too many women to love out there.

     Too bad Douglas Adams died.  That sucks.  All he really wanted to do was to make a living.
     At one point, he had to clean the s**t out of chicken houses, and he returned to live with his mother.  Dang.

     His books sold 15 million, which is about as many records as The Killers have sold.
     I guess people like records more than books.

     The wiki articles on both Jeri Ryan and Douglas Adams were good reading, so stop reading the crap I write, and read about them on wiki.
     You will definitely learn more.

The Beginning

     Hi, I'm at the cafe, and I had some ideas and thoughts about 'Space Journey Battles' yesterday. 
     Basically, it should start with a guy on the planet Earth who is a loser idiot, and he somehow manages to get on board a shuttle craft transport to the InterGalactic Space Bus System, which is located near Jupiter somewhere.
     Then, the whole story forgets about this character, who ends up dying, or maybe he shows up at the very end, and just goes home.
    In the meantime, other amazing characters show up, and the real story begins, with wars, intrigue, death, sex, whorehouses, brothels, gun fights, battles, shopping, everything gets in there, including alien locker rooms, and lots of sex and violence, and other screwed up things that everybody likes.
     I'd like to have a clean version, and a rated X version, lol.
     I don't see why you just can't have a story, and the characters do some good f**king, and then the story goes on.  I don't know why it is always such a disregarded part of the story, when it is, in fact, the story.  That is what motivates most people, sex, money, and power, so you can get more sex, and more money.  It seems to be what it is all about.
     Anyway, Babylon 5 has this bald girl in Season 1.  She is really cute.  I want a girl like that in my sci-fi epic.  That would be rad.  I would like to dress her up in leather belts, and take them off one by one.  That would be hot, lol.

     Anyway, I don't know what would happen in this epic.  The main idea would be to parody every science fiction thing there ever was.  It all makes sense in my Davia Universe, or whatever the name will be.  I don't know yet.

     I had the pinhead universe as a kid, with 'Archibald The Neurotically Insane', and that let me do my outer space thing, and have things be surrealistic with McDonald's on asteroids, and things like that.  It gave me a lot of room creatively.

     I am 43 now, and it time to update my imagination.

     I don't know if anything will come of it.  I barely know what I am doing.  I am basically still trying to wake up.
     I need coffee.

     I was just outside, and I videotaped a cute puppy bow-wow.  He was pretty damn cute.  He was fat for a little dog.  He was adorable. 
     Dogs' @**holes get cold, so they have to cling their tail in real tight.
     It is too cold outside today for that dog to sit or lie on the sidewalk, so all a dog can do is just stand there, leashed to a tree with nothing to do.
     Dogs get bored just like humans.  They like to have things to do to keep their minds occupied.  Time gets real tedious.

     Funny that I would get into science fiction.  I'm supposed to be into art.  Maybe it all goes together somehow.

     In Babylon 5, it showed Giraldi, or whatever his name is, reading a newspaper and *tching about the Dodgers with a line of complaint.
     I don't think there will be newspapers in space.  Everything will be electronic.

     There is a whole cafe filled with laptop users in here now.  It is amazing to see.  Almost every table has somebody with a laptop at it.

     Back to the subject of cute animals in space, along with cute robots.  Well, without enough reinforcement of cute things in the depths of space, people would die from lack of life.  There would not be enough to make people want to live.

     The creator of Babylon 5 was brilliant.  He came up with a show that did not go over budget.  Everything took place on the space station, all on a contained set that they could use over and over again.  The ship was big, so new rooms could always be created.
     In a way, I can't help but think that Babylon 5 is the American version of Red Dwarf, except that Babylon 5 is not really funny.  It is unintentionally funny, in the same way as Original Star Trek is.  When things are really serious, it is really funny.
     Anyway, Babylon 5 is really American, with American characters, and American viewpoints.
     The aliens simply adapt views from other countries.
     They look like aliens, but some of the characters seem like they could be from 17th century Europe, the Centauri's being the example of that.
     It's all good....don't you just hate that phrase?

     Anyway, I could be at home playing video games right now, earning credits so I can build.  Or I could be here dicking around with words that don't matter to anyone.  I don't even know if they matter to me yet.

     Any good piece of writing has to be gone over time and time again until something good comes out of it.  It is a labor that is unappreciated until the big bucks come in and everybody thinks it is awesome and so are you.  No one wants to know about the amount of work it takes to do anything.  They don't care.  They just want their content handed to them on a silver platter.

     I could be sitting in here drawing pictures.

     I've been thinking about things like copyrights, even with pictures I take.  I don't own the rights to that person without a model release form.  It is just how it works.  If something I do does make money, I'd have to own all the rights to it.

     Art has to be original for you to own the rights to your own work.
     It goes back to my thought that I like that it takes a lot of considerations just for a kid to put a drawing on the refrigerator.  I am not even kidding.
     There is the placement of the art, how it is hung, how the content is presented, if the image reads well to the viewer, and if the art should be viewed on its own terms, or whether the cult of the identity of the artist should be thought about.
     Is the art better because the artist is your kid?  What if the art is done by the kid you don't like as much, yet the art is better than what your favorite kid can do?
     See?  There is a lot to think about.

     Most people don't care about art.  Yet, when there is a good art show on with a significant artist, people will drive great distances, or will fly from different countries just to see it, and I ain't kidding about that.
   There are some art shows in San Francisco that are big events.  Tickets get sold out.

     Mostly, I'm not much into the art scene in San Francisco.  There is nothing here for me.  No one cares about me, or what I do.  My work is unrecognized, and I have no clients, and nothing going on with my art.  I can't even get an art show in a coffee shop.  I don't even paint anymore, because what is the point?  I don't even know what to paint anymore, and people are more attuned to computer art and photo retouch as being 'good'.

     Images just aren't that much of a big deal.  People consume a lot of them, though.  They can't get enough.  The art is hidden in television shows, but it is all there.  It just happens that voice and sound are added.

     A young bunny would be nice.  I just saw a cute one in a rainbow outfit with her fat friend, who was also dressed up.  But only one of them I wanted.  She had a good caboose on her.

     I've pretty much decided that if I do see a cute girl in the cafe, that I will spend time writing about her.  I used to draw them, but being in text mode, I don't readily have my sketchbook handy, and I've drawn so many girls anyway, that I don't know if it matters.  I just want to draw them naked anyhow, and I've done that enough, lord knows.

     It's the whole point of going to the cafe, to be around people, and to see things you wouldn't normally see.

     I suppose this world that I experience would be how I would want 'Space Journey Battles' to be.  It would be the same old thing.
     The qualities of existence are the same everywhere you go.  It doesn't matter if you are on Earth, or in outer space, eventually, you run into the same walls and limitations, and it is what you do with it that counts.

     We all have limited life-spans.

     One thing on Babylon 5 that surfaced was them talking about The Holy Grail.  That is a pretty tired reference.  Monty Python did it best, nothing will come close.  Then Indiana Jones got in the act, and that was kind of ridiculous.  Believability really was thrown out the window with that one.
     So, I am done with references with The Holy Grail.  Unless you are talking about Monty Python, I really don't want to hear it.  I think the subject is done.

     I could talk about my ugly face and how I need to shave, or I could talk about girl's butts, and how big they appear to be sometimes, lol.  What subject is better than that?
     Girls don't like to laugh at their own butts, but I think even that part of it is funny.

     There is this psi-cop on Babylon 5, a blonde, with red lipstick, and she has some caboose on her.

     And what about Jeri Ryan?  I'm going to have to look her up on wiki.

     Babylon 5 just started out being a series of madly written notes, so I don't know why I can't do the same thing.

     I'd still like to do a comic strip, too.

     My problem is that I don't have a mind to do commercial work.  I always have to muck it up either with language or nudity...haha...but that is what I do as a person and as an artist. 
     Clothes are just really boring in art, who cares?

Bite The Hand That Feeds

     I have no problem biting the hand of adsense, because it isn't feeding me.  I will bite less when it actually starts to feed me.
     It is nice to have a blog, though, so I appreciate the house they've given me in which to blog.  I love to write, and I love the opportunity to express myself through text, photographs, and video.  It's pretty cool.

     Too bad I'm not a professional baseball player.  I'd probably have more money in the bank.

     Writers and artists don't make a lot unless they get lucky.

A note from the creator of 'Space Journey Battles'

     Space Journey Battles is a framework of stories and events that occur in another galaxy, the name of which I have not come up with yet.  For now, it features The Adventures of Dirk Rompaflash, who is a mercenary private soldier type of person who minds his own business, but constantly finds himself in trouble.  Dirk's name is derived from a video game, but I changed the name to avoid copyright issues.  I don't even want to touch other people's material.  I want to create my own fictional universe of events, characters, places, happenings, and instances.

     My influences will be from a variety of sources, and I will do a lot of parody.  It will be all created by me, so no one else will be able to claim my content.  I will change all of my influences, and make them mine.

  'Space Journey Battles' as a name came about as a title to cover the material that I wanted to involve myself with.  I wanted to do science fiction for starters.  I wanted there to be action and adventure, and I wanted there to be conflict.  All good places to start. 
     Having your own galaxy to work within is pretty cool.  It gives you plenty of room.

     The nature of the content will be from Rated G to Rated PG-13.  I'm not really interested in crossing over into Rated R land.  Well, actually I am, but I've figured out where to do that material on another blog that is not monetized.  For monetized blogs, you have to keep the content relatively clean you know.  It seems to be how the world is these days.  There is a lot of confusion about what you can and can not do, so it is better to be safe than sorry.  It would suck to do a lot of work, and then to have Blogger decide that the content is not suitable for monetization.  It happened to me once before, and I don't want it to happen again.

     Anyway, fun things are on the way, stay tuned, or not, it's up to you.  Nothing I can do about it except to present the material.  If anybody likes it, then fine, and if somebody doesn't like it, well they can go find something they do like, that part of the equation is not up to me.  I'm just trying to create some original material that is fun, funny, and kicks arse to a certain extent.

     See you guys later,
     David Lovins
     Creator of Space Journey Battles

Dirk's Journal - Trickster Girl

    "I met her through the Galactic Communications Service.  She seemed nice enough at first, but she didn't seem to be too bright with dialogue.  Then it turned out that this person revealed himself to be a guy, and he was trying to hustle me for Galactic Credits, the little bastard.
     There were lies about age and education to try and convince me he was female.  It just never felt right."

     Anyway, that little episode is over with.  I posted on the local galaxy net that he/she was a hustler trickster, to help avoid that happening to other people.

     I don't know what he looks like in real life, but a punch in the nose would be in order."

From The Journal of Dirk Rompaflash

     "Hi, I'm here at the cafe on my Slyloth lot.  I got my coffee.  Life is good when I got my coffee.  Also, I have time, which is a precious commodity sometimes.  I don't have to be anywhere today, or do anything.  However, I will do as much as I can to further my career."
     With that, Dirk sipped on his coffee.
    
     Dirk just sat there looking at the trees gently blowing in the wind, looking at the landscape from his outdoor table.
     It was a nice day, so he had no complaints.

     There was some girl who lied about her age.  She stated that she was twenty-one, yet when Dirk talked to her, she seemed a lot younger.  She said that she was studying computers in college, yet didn't know much about setting up a video account on The Galactic Network.  She also said she lived with her parents, and that she was taking courses at home; yet, she could not identify her main area of study readily, and she said she didn't have a major.
     Dirk basically busted her.  She was not telling the truth.
     As it turned out, her motive was to try and obtain credits from Dirk by emotionally bonding with him.
     Dirk's instincts turned out to be correct, that the motive for her wanting to be friends with him in the first place was that she was going to try and hustle him out of his pocket change.

     "No dice for her," Dirk thought to himself as he put his feet on the table.  "Fudge her."

     He was trying to curb his swearing. 

     Anyway, there was nothing that was going to ruin his day.  He was going to kick back, relax, and have a good time.