zamros

zamros @ 2008-03-23T23:00:00

2008-03-24T15:00:20Z

happy brothday to me

zamros @ 2008-03-04T12:29:00

2008-03-04T17:48:37Z

Not that it's breaking news, but some recent commercials led me to wonder why, exactly, Nickelodeon is putting out a TV Series based on Barnyard, the 2006 lukewarm Nickelodeon studios production about a group of fun-loving barnyard animals. Despite a very heavy advertising campaign on Nickelodeon and its respective networks as well as Cartoon Network, the movie ended up grossing just under $75 million in its worldwide release. For comparison Shark Tale, the similarly terrible computer-animated feature film, grossed just over $350 million worldwide; computer animation can seemingly take any awful movie to the next level of profit, with Barnyard standing out as a glaring exception. When the feature-length film failed to resonate with audiences, why did they think that the antics of Otis, a male cow complete with udders, and his appropriately boring farm animal pals (A filthy pig! A stubborn mule! A blind mouse!) would strike a chord with the television watching youth?

It's not the first mistake Nickelodeon has ever made, by far; for every Rugrats, there is My Dad the Rock Star. On the same hallowed ground that they built the legacy that is GUTS, they come up with flops like Nickelodeon Robot Wars and Double Dare 2000.

Did the Nickelodeon executives focus group Back at the Barnyard with the same audience that okayed the original film? Did they send DVDs of it to the kids who loved Pelswick, Mr. Meaty and Catscratch? (Admittedly Pelswick and Mr. Meaty may not have been Nick's fault, though, due to their Canadian success before coming to Nick USA as we know it). Either way, I don't think that Back to the Barnyard will be a seminal treasure that Nickelodeon occasionally spews forth; it seems as if it will languish in to obscurity, becoming yet another The Brothers Flub.

zamros @ 2008-01-14T21:06:00

2008-01-15T02:11:53Z

But anyway, in retrospect, top 3 Coolest Parts:

1) When I saw the doctor peeling back the flap in my cornea and everything just got all blurry.
2) The Clockwork Orange eye-holdy-openy things.
3) The smell of what I assume was the inner part of my eyeball getting burned and reshaped.

Top 3 Worst parts:

1) I had to stare at this blinking red light but the doctor kept poking my eye around which made the red light move. I guess I was a bad patient because he seemed a little angry by the end with his "look at the red light, look at the red light..."
2) The car ride home. Painful, couldn't see, traffic.
3) The stupid goggles I have to wear to bed for a week.

In other news, Snoopy toys are now at Burger King.

zamros @ 2008-01-12T07:41:00

2008-01-12T12:42:15Z

I can see again!

It's a Christmas miracle.

zamros @ 2007-11-29T14:05:00

2007-11-29T19:10:25Z

Man, LEGO must have decided to hire some kind of new set designers this year instead of just spending their money of licensing Harry Potter and Star Wars and shit, because the new Mars Mission looks pretty sweet. I mean, pump systems? And a freaking Nerf gun? Hell yeah.

In other news, you ever notice how the robot dog commercials always pick up around Christmas time? Probably because no one buys robot dogs except parents/relatives buying filler gifts for their kids when they can't think of anything to get them. Oh, and idiots.

zamros @ 2007-07-01T13:59:00

2007-07-01T18:01:14Z

dear the internet,

can't i have funny pictures without large letters photoshopped on to them pointing out what is funny about the picture?

sincerely
zamros

zamros @ 2007-04-29T18:56:00

2007-04-29T22:55:11Z

I bought a lottery ticket last night; it's worth the $1 to have a few days of "...man, it's going to be so great when I win the lottery...." Especially right before finals week.

zamros @ 2007-04-26T10:36:00

2007-04-26T14:35:35Z

I decided that there was no way to make it in this Web 2.0 world without a real, non-Livejournal Blog. So I made one:

Thank you, Murry

Please add it to your RSS feeds and Digg it.

pokemon friend code

2007-04-21T16:06:49Z

Hey guys, I just got the pokemon game. Add me as a friend! We'll play sometime.

My friend code: 7582 2994 8237

Whats yours?!

zamros @ 2007-03-24T00:48:00

2007-03-24T04:48:06Z

happy birthday to me

zamros @ 2007-03-07T14:11:00

2007-03-07T19:14:49Z

the cat was a total jerk last night

at around 5 in the morning he struts in to my room, freewheelin' all around like he's mick jagger. first he starts batting at this pair of busted earbud headphones i tied to the doorknob for him to play with, which starts making loud click-click-click noises which wake me up! so i get up and wrap the headphones around the knob so he can't get em. then he starts tearing ass around the room playing with one of his other toys that was just sitting around. when he got tired of that he hopped up on to the bed, so i started pettin' him because i was freaking awake thanks to the little jerk. then he starts sneezing, blowing cat boogers all over the place like some kind of cat snot cannon. after yelling at him for being gross, he jumped off the bed and then immediately back on to the bed at the bottom, where he started attacking my feet under the covers becaus obviously he thought they were some kind of food or mouse or something that he had to kill immediately. i fell asleep while he was still attacking the feets.

but he's cute i guess.

zamros @ 2007-02-27T00:09:00

2007-02-27T05:11:09Z

Hey livejournal friends list

I need to write about poems by contemporary poets ("contemporary" = Living circa 1970) for my poetry class but unfortunately I'm kind of retarded when it comes to how to find stuff like that. does anyone know any good, living poets?!?!

thank you,
-me

zamros @ 2007-02-15T20:13:00

2007-02-16T01:26:24Z

hey my camera worked for like 10 minutes today, i managed to get some pictures of my DRUMS#@*)#%

the whole shebang

the pilot station, takin' you to REGGAE town

module, snare, hihat, tom, theres so much duct tape on them because i hit them too damn hard and they hit the crossbars i put in the drum. oops.

cymbals, floor tom. the things taped on the cymbals are rubber oven mitts. you can also see the crossbar and the foam column with the piezo underneath it.

mesh head, column, lil holes, etc

my freakin snare, which i made out of my freakin tom. i break this one a lot.

my bass drum.

and here's a picture of the kitty for you ljcutters.

don't tell them your secrets.

zamros @ 2007-02-14T11:38:00

2007-02-14T17:07:59Z

classes cancelled, woo

happy valentines-and-2-feet-of-snow day

zamros @ 2007-02-08T00:19:00

2007-02-08T05:19:24Z

Today I wrote a short, boring, meaningless Livejournal entry that is of no interest to anyone on my friends list.

Free Credit Report.com Commercial!

2007-01-29T01:13:16Z

Keith Moon Smashes Drums

2007-01-26T02:27:21Z

zamros @ 2007-01-23T14:38:00

2007-01-23T19:50:36Z

so i converted my acoustic drums to electronic drums, now i can play them quietly and listen with headphones

it wasnt very hard

if i had some kind of recording cable i would record a sample of them but they're not even done yet

if my camera wasn't broken i'd take pictures!

so you are left with nothing

sorry

zamros @ 2007-01-19T19:38:00

2007-01-20T00:38:46Z

zamros @ 2007-01-10T14:07:00

2007-01-10T19:12:55Z

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

ive been tagged for this music thing but honestly i don't really listen to music much, i just have the tv on every waking moment.

so i'm going to list seven tv shows i've been enjoying now:

my gym partner is a monkey (i really hated this show at first but it grew on me)
foster's home for imaginary friends (ditto)
hogan knows best
futurama (a perennial favorite)
spongebob squarepants
this one public access show that's just some dude sitting behind a drumset talking about playing drums in to a microphone for 30 minutes
and the last one is a tie between parental control and next because both those shows are enjoyable

oh also maury rules

i aint tagging nobody

zamros @ 2007-01-08T21:04:00

2007-01-09T02:04:56Z

zamros @ 2007-01-02T02:29:00

2007-01-02T07:29:36Z

this photo is amusing to me

zamros @ 2006-12-17T04:10:00

2006-12-17T09:10:13Z

i'd probably be a nihilist if i was an asshole

zamros @ 2006-12-15T00:14:00

2006-12-15T05:14:48Z

oh no! they made the lj update page text box look different

lets all bitch

zamros @ 2006-12-13T12:47:00

2006-12-13T17:47:56Z

some fun facts about general tso's chicken

"General Tso Tsungtang, or as his name is spelled in modern Pinyin, Zuo Zongtang, was born on Nov. 10, 1812, and died on Sept. 5, 1885. He was a frighteningly gifted military leader during the waning of the Qing dynasty, a figure perhaps the Chinese equivalent of the American Civil War commander William Tecumseh Sherman. He served with brilliant distinction during China's greatest civil war, the 14-year-long Taiping Rebellion, which claimed millions of lives.

"Tso was utterly ruthless. He smashed the Taiping rebels in four provinces, put down an unrelated revolt called the Nian Rebellion, then marched west and reconquered Chinese Turkestan from Muslim rebels.

"The details of Tso's life are easy to document. But how the chicken got named for him is another matter. In "Chinese Kitchen" (Morrow, 1999), author Eileen Yin-Fei Lo says that dish is a Hunan classic called "chung ton gai," or "ancestor meeting place chicken."

"Around 1974, Hunan and Szechuan food were introduced to the city, and General Tso's Chicken was an exemplar of the new style. Peng's, on East 44th Street, was the first restaurant in NYC to serve it, and since the dish (and cuisine) were new, Chef Peng was able to make it a House Specialty, in spite of its commonplace ingredients."

"My own research led me to the same city, but a different Manhattan restaurateur, who claims the dish is the brilliant invention of his former partner, a gifted Chinese immigrant chef named T.T. Wang.

"He went into business with me in 1972," said Michael Tong, owner of New York's Shun Lee Palaces, East (155 E. 55th St.) and West (43 W. 65th St.). "We opened the first Hunanese restaurant in the whole country, and the four dishes we offered you will see on the menu of practically every Hunanese restaurant in America today. They all copied from us.

"...Fourth, General Tso's chicken, sometimes called General Tsung's chicken or General Tsao's chicken."

stupid article i read about this