Category: Book 3 - The Adventure!
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I guess this is mainly about music. I haven't listened to Burzum in ages.
Monday, February 19, 2007
The other day I found out you can cancel out a sound by playing the exact same sound a little bit later so that the patterns in the music form like a perfect melody or something that just fills in all possible combinations of sound at once. It's pretty intense. It would be pretty awesome if you knew how long to wait so that you could shout at someone really urgently, "Help! The sky is on fire!"
As they turn around at you because they think that they have heard something you quickly shout it again and as they look at your lips they just see it move and see you screaming for help and no one knows why because they can't hear you. Later you go up to them and tell ask them why they didn't help you. Only this time you say you were saying something like, "I think someone is about to die!" and ask them why they thought it was okay to just ignore this. It isn't.
Did any of you guys like those comics that I did over the weekend? It was a trilogy and I think I'm going to do another round of them next weekend. If I do another round after that then it will be a trilogy of trilogies. Which is pretty cool, I guess.
I didn't see anyone today. I just watched some TV and spent like hours on the internet. That's where I found out that you could do that thing with the shouting and people not being able to hear you.
I think another great invention would be if you could make sounds without speakers. Like, imagine these boxes that you can just flip a switch and people just know that there is sound happening. It's like you're using radiowaves or something to just get in their heads. With like super-microchips in their heads so that they can pick it up and translate all this raw data into music.
You just choose what song you want them to hear and press the button and then they hear it. They'd all be freaked out at how there is all this music but there isn't any band playing.
As a shark I have certain commitments. One of them is to rock the hardest.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
David was here earlier. He wanted to know why adults are always making up rules all the time. It's like they have no firm base to stick to. They're just shifting around their morals so that they can survive another day without having to be wrong. I explained. "They are just trying to get by and not be hurt anymore."
That's why Michael (my son) is always telling me not to do things. And the landlord. They just want it to be over.
"I don't think that's always true!" David complained, "What about when you do something you love and you find someone you love and you stick to your path?"
I smiled at him. My smile had answers.
"Well, I'm not saying that you're not happy, I'm just saying that you don't want to fight anymore." I said. "It's just that you know what's it like all the time."
"What, like you?" David smirked.
"I know a lot of stuff. It's different when you're a shark though." I explained. "You know things about people that other people just wouldn't get."
"Do you ever leave your apartment?"
"I don't know. I was going to go on an adventure." I said. "And the landlord."
"Why didn't you go?"
"Well, " I answered, "You can't just go all of a sudden. There's all sorts of stuff that you have to do first."
"Like what?"
"I don't know. All sorts of stuff" I replied.
We sat around for a bit and played TV games and then David left. He seemed a bit tired.
Murray
=(
Posted by Speak up! My eggs are flowing leftover soup on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 9:48 PM
The Ancient Shark Of Despair
I rock the hardest and the longest. Even when everyone else has left, I'm still there rocking.
Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 11:18 PM
Arbot
Just do it Sharky
Do it right now
and it will be better that way
fuck the delay of gratification
Posted by Arbot on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 10:13 AM
The Ancient Shark Of Despair
If I go on an adventure then I can't write my blogs. I enjoy writing my blogs. I guess I could write a book about it while it's happening or something. I don't know.
Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 6:37 PM
If someone really knew me, they'd probably just be able to destroy me.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Say you get this new pet and your parents are telling you that you shouldn't have gone behind their backs and got that pet. You're not going to keep taking care of it and then they're going to have to. They say.
I'm responsible. I can do it. I love this pet more than anything right now and that's not going to change. I understand how my mind works and I'm not just going to get bored of this pet. I love it so much right now.
Your parents are telling you, "No." They really hope that you take care of it. They just don't want to see a pet being neglected because you got tired of caring for it because it's so much work all the time.
It's okay. You can keep it. Just please take care of it and show us how responsible and grown up you are.
Okay. Some time passes and you start to realise that it is getting really hard to always be around when it's time for it to be fed. You sleep out one night and you ask your parents if they will take care of it and feed it while you're gone.
They do. They love you and really hope that you're going to enjoy having this pet and are going to grow from it.
After a while you start doing this more and more and you start forgetting to feed it until later at night and your parents start feeding it earlier because they know that you're forgetting all the time.
Okay. A gentle transition occurs where they start feeding the pet more and more and you start feeling a bit guilty because your parents were right and you shouldn't have got the pet because you aren't responsible enough. It's too late now and the pet it going to be a bit of a burden on your parents for a few years.
I kind of imagine this is how dictatorships get out of hand.
I am going to change this country. I'm going to make life less bad. I meant we. We are going to. This is genuine. The dictator/people's hero is being genuine and really wants things to change for the better because life would be so much nicer then. Also, he's trying really hard for some time. But, you know, life is hard sometimes and you don't always do what you originally wanted to do.
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User comments
Arbot
This is one of my faves Sharky
Posted by Arbot on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 11:55 PM
The Ancient Shark Of Despair
You're one of my favourites, Arbot.
Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 12:13 AM
Niel
i really hope you can change the country. i am all for change. and i trust you to do it. you have that outer worldy knowledge.
Posted by niel on Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 12:30 AM
The Ancient Shark Of Despair
What they should do to stop people messing up countries is they should just be less and less nice to the person until they stop messing up. Obviously you can't just attack them and be all, "You're hurting our live and we don't like you!".
More subtle, just talk to the dictator less. Maybe even pretend that you can't hear them sometimes. They'll get the point deep in their subconcious. They'll just start to realise that the more things go wrong the less people like them. They'll try harder to make things right.
This could also maybe work for kids who get pets.
Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 12:39 AM
Kobus
Mmm , I'll vote for this
Posted by Kobus on Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 9:24 AM
More rude phone calls.
I think that the title sort of sums it up. I got some rude phone calls as per usual and it sounded like the Shark of Wisdom as per usual. He said something about how sad parents can get and some people in the background sounded like they were nearly laughing. I didn't hang up because I figured I'd just waste their phone bill and that would get him back.
I kept listening too. I wanted to know what he was saying. I was glad that he didn't say anything about me until he said that thing about the sad parents and I told him to grow up. I heard laughing and they put the phone down then.
I listened to Burzum today. I haven't done that in some time. The thing about Burzum is that I prefer to listen to it when... I'm not actually sure when, but something was definitely missing this time.
I checked out of my window to see if David was there and he wasn't. He's been sitting outside a lot less since he started visiting me. In fact, I don't think that I've seen him sit outside since the party.
He's lost a lot of weight, and he cut back on the beard. It's because of all the pressure.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Okay, so I found out that the reason my drawing was getting so good wasn't actually because of me. It was because the Xylene-free marker that I was using was running dry. It actually got so bad that I had to open a new one and you can see how bad I am actually in the second and third panels. It's okay though.
Moe is coming round tonight. That'll be cool.
[EDIT: OH, I FORGOT TO TELL YOU GUYS, THIS IS SET IN THE PAST.]
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User comments
Arbot
that astronaught is pretty good
Posted by Arbot on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 9:46 AM
The Ancient Shark Of Despair
That's what I thought until I realised that it was just because my Xylene-free ink was drying up and the lines were getting thinner. It's not really that good apart from that.
Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 3:24 PM
Niel
i like the things on the wall. it looks like certificates and a picture of two people.
Posted by niel on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 11:09 AM
The Ancient Shark Of Despair
Yeah, there's a whole back story there.
Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 3:20 PM
Maxi
well, my favourite thing about this comic is how all the stuff on the desk in panel 2 suddenly isn't there in panel 3. Very effective.
Posted by 'xine on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 4:56 PM
The Ancient Shark Of Despair
What about his piano tie? Do you like that?
Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 6:22 PM
the town drunk
People.....I think we are all losing site of the most important factor here, it can't be found in the minutae of certification and desk clutter......there's a twist to the plot coming....it's already in sight.......Carolyn appears to be none other than...........Dave Grohl in a skirt! (that's not the only reason he's looking cross either.......I heard he had to shave for the part and he was not very happy about it.........)
Posted by the town drunk on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 5:52 PM
The Ancient Shark Of Despair
David Grohl doesn't sound very friendly.
Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 6:21 PM
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