Long Time, No See

THE FABULOUS ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT: KENNETH'S CREATURES FOR THE CAUSE

2011-07-25T17:55:00.000-07:00

THE FABULOUS ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT: KENNETH'S CREATURES FOR THE CAUSE: "I am very happy to introduce new member Kenneth Rougeau. Dandy Lions I was instantly pulled in by Kenneth's work, not just because he has ..."

clouds on the sun

2008-03-06T22:34:00.000-08:00

clouds on the sun

clouds on the sun

blue sky
interuppted

close your
eyes, imagine
warmth
on your
face -

wish
the
grey
day
away.

- Kenneth Rougeau ² 12-29-06 3:57pm

Awakening An Angel

2008-03-06T20:48:00.000-08:00

Awakening An Angel

awaken,
my angel…

born to the world
asleep and dreaming.

in fitful
fantasy
she knows
that
she is,

but not what
or how lovely -

she doesn't realize
if she'd only try
that she could float
and she could fly.

open your eyes
and feel the sky,
spread your wings
exit the slumbered lie.

- KpR² 12-30-06 2:24pm CST

Heroes & Villains I Have Been

2008-03-06T20:42:00.000-08:00

(Reposted from krougeau.dramflicks.com)

Heroes and Villains I Have Been

January 1st, 2007 .. by Kenneth Rougeau -->

Whee… This was actually done originally as a reply to a comment a friend of mine left on another blog… But after putting it together I thought I'd go ahead and share it with the rest of you in case you were interested, hehe. I spent a year of my life as a professional gamer, playing Final Fantasy XI, City of Heroes/Villains, World of Warcraft, EVE Online, and tons of others here and there. Eventually it stopped being fun and started feeling like work though, so I stopped playing for money and just went back to playing. There's easier ways to make money, lol, believe me. Anyway - I've recently been made out to be some sort of evil supervillain and thought I'd take the opportunity to show you some of the villains (and heroes) I have been in the past…
Warning - nerd stuff ahead!

_______________________

Hmm, I've been a few evil villains now hehe… My two favorites were:

Angry Monkey

and

The Cenobyte

My collection of superheroes is a bit screwier…

The Necronom
(my main character)
(concept: hacker/mage captures Cthulu in a cybernetic suit and makes it do his bidding)

The Blue M 'n M
(without a doubt the most fun to play, lol! His battle cry was Melts In Your Mouth!)
(oh, and don't eat M&Ms you find in the sewer…)

Debtmonkey
Leader of the supergroup
The Lemmings of Justice!
(we had weekly suicide runs taking low level characters charging through high level zones. It was a riot!)

The Lemmings of Justice!
(running for their lives hehe)

Montage of several of my other screwy characters hehe
I had tons and tons - they were just fun to design.

Wrong! Do It Again! - poetry by KpR²

2008-03-06T20:31:00.000-08:00

The following poems were written around the time I was in high school (and some shortly there after). Most of my original collection has been lost. This is the best of the best of the rest of what's left... I dedicate this body of work to my mother, whose verse originally inspired me to write my own.
Enjoy!
- Ken Rougeau ²

_______________________________

a lonely place
______________

i'd like to find
a lonely place
to scream
& not be heard...

a place where i
can go to cry
& not feel
my tears absurd...

- 04/04/1996 12:21am - kenneth p rougeau jr

The Bastard's Reflection
______________________

A madman in my mirror -
His face my own.
Poet?
Prophet?
Angry youth...
I've forgotten how to love
& soon after how to live.
Wander through my self delusions,
Painting pictures & adding new illusions.
I remember you,
Ghostly figure
In fading memories.
I think I loved you once
Sometime before I died
Leaving behind two tears -
One uncried, one undried.
The bastard's reflection
Greets me again
With twisted face
And sadistic grin.
Where have I lost myself?
Who's trying to find me?
Putting together puzzles
Without having all the pieces -
The story of my life.
Once again I press through the glass
And seek myself
On the other side.

- Date/Time unknown - kenneth p rougeau jr

Another Bookshelf Kingdom Falls
___________________________

A thousand heroes
Standing tall,
A thousand heroes
Together fall.

From beneath the dusty,
Yellowed pages
Charge these warriors
Of varying ages.

United they stood,
Divided they fell
Into moldy old boxes
And literary hell.

Knights of old
And creatures of night
Joined together
In a losing fight.

The killing beast
That libraries feed
Is the injustice of any child
Who never learns to read.

Words can't rise up
From their place on the page
If no one cares to look
And reclaim the literary age.

- Date/Time unknown - kenneth p rougeau jr

child
_____

within me
lies the wisdom
gained by realizing
i'm a fool

- 10/27/1995 2:43am - kenneth p rougeau jr

December
_____________

warm night in december,
strange break
in the freezing rains

electricity thick in the air
like some new storm
waiting to be born

where are you?
why am i here,
drunk & alone?

- 12/31/1995 12:46am - kenneth p rougeau jr

drunk
______

again
here i go,
stone cold drunk
& wavering

fall down
stand up
fall again

crawl
to the wall

retch

rain

it's over

it's beginning
again...

- 10/27/1995 4:45am - kenneth p rougeau jr

Echoes of the Everlasting
_____________________

Unfinished sentences loom
In the gathering gloom.
There's a madman in my mirror,
I've seen him there before...

Nonsense words
& nonlinear thoughts -
These things are me.

In the fool's reflection
One's own face is unfamiliar,
As if life were seen
Through someone else's eyes.

The shadow of existential doubt
Falls over our minds,
Clouding it and causing us to worry
About the coming of eternal night.

Forget the night,
Live each day as though it were your last.
Cherish every moment & strive
To make more meaningful memories -
They may be all we have
As we echo through the everlasting.

- Date/Time unknown - kenneth p rougeau jr

Enough?
_______

if i take & fill
your empty hand
with mine,
would it be enough?
could we call it love?
would it be enough to last?

- 10/01/1993 3:01am - kenneth p rougeau jr

Tears For A Fictional Character
_________________________

Shut out by the world,
forced to pick yourself up
& out of the mud.
No one to love you
but you...
Your eyes mirror
the sorrow & suffering
that cry out from behind
my own.
Yeah, I know you.
I know every tear you've ever cried
& every reason you'd ever lied.
I know how very terribly hard you've tried.
We're each who the other's been searching for.
I know you as I would my own reflection.
You.
You are my pain,
my sorrow & my sunshine,
my dreams & my darkness.
I love you
& from this moment on
I can never be the same.

- Date/Time unknown - kenneth p rougeau jr

Flicker Away
____________

a lone spark
dances in the dark,
destined to fade in the rain
though i pray that she'll remain

- Date/Time unknown - kenneth p rougeau jr

I Can't Stand
___________

neglect is abuse
& as many times
as that look in your eyes
has hit me,
it's a wonder i can stand at all...

- 04/08/1996 5:05pm - kenneth p rougeau jr

Kat(#13)
_________

pulling
petals
from flowers
&
praying
for passions
long past

- 11/14/1995 11:09pm - kenneth p rougeau jr

Some Lonely Only Child
______________________

some lonely only child
playing hide & seek alone
tags her reflection
and dances away...
she's king of the hill
with no one to rule,
and ring around the rosie
just leaves her dizzy & sick...

- 11/04/1993 10:37am - kenneth p rougeau jr

Maddened Insight
_________________

Myself,
A festering wound
Of maddened insight
Slashed into the wrists
Of reality.
I'm the worm in the bottle,
Drinking myself to death.

Life grows constantly more predictable,
Every day seems the same.
I don't believe in tomorrow,
I can't hold onto today,
And yesterday's already slipped through my fingers.
All that's left are memories and pictures
And perhaps I'm only dreaming after all...
I can't believe in anything.
Each moment fleeting,
No sooner noticed than gone.
Tomorrow turns today to yesterday
& what stability is there in that?
What can we hold onto?
What will last?

Time & space,
Moving onward indefinately
& folding back on themselves in waves.
How many times have you seen the world
Through those eyes?
Mankind in it's madness,
Trashing it's own customs & traditions.
Moving further from sense & sanity
& claiming all the while to be getting closer.
Ah, civilization.

Birth is the deadliest sin,
Leading to a multitude of lesser sins
And the tarnishing of the soul.
Give me peace,
Release me from this maddened insight.

- Date/Time unknown - kenneth p rougeau jr

November
__________

tears fall from my eyes
like leaves
from the trees
in november

- 11/15/1995 3:18am - kenneth p rougeau jr

Orange Memories
____________

citrus acidity
bringing to mind
breakfasts half eaten,
coffee
warm and dripping
down the sides
of my porcelain cup
in moments of
sleepy eyed awakening.
orange juice pulp
and grinning
youthful smiles -
days gone by,
at times
nearly forgotten.
my life was once filled
with joyful noise.
now i itch
at the empty space
where those
memories
used to be.

- 11/22/1993 10:13am - kenneth p rougeau jr

Orestes
_________

A stranger in the town of my birth,
A king in peasant's guise.
The darkness,
The heat,
The incessant buzzing of the air.
Are these things all that remain
Of my kingdom, my home?
A lying monarch
& the blood stained hands of the Queen.
The peasant slave girl -
A princess, my sister.
I've traveled roads unnumbered,
But no path was my own.
I've touched the dreams of other men,
But never dared dream my own.
I've heard tales recalled from memory,
But could never share my own.
I've shared the homes of beautiful families
But have never known my own.
I am as free as any caged beast
& have been disowned by the gods.
What care have I for gods?
What piece of this mad nomadic life
Was their doing?
Have they ever given me reason
To hold on to hope?
I will avenge my father
By killing my mother
& her lover,
The usurper king.
Then I shall claim my birthright
& my crown
& have myself put to death.

- Date/Time Unknown - kenneth p rougeau jr
- Inspired by Jean Paul Sartre's play "The Flies"

Passing Time
____________

everything about me
is changing,
yet here i stand,
still me,
still mostly who i used to be -
just a little older,
just a bit more tired
of watching the world
evolve without me.

- 10/22/1995 1:49am - kenneth p rougeau jr

Peripheral Visions
_________________

these lights
these sights
seen
but never noticed...
one of them,
hidden in plain sight,
20/20
into & out of view,
you stare through me...
an insect,
creeping through the cracks,
i'm in your heart
& in your house
& you never saw it coming
until the disease infected your life...
you want the sickness...
enthralled by the fever,
you feel the high
& grow addicted...
you want to keep me,
you want to love me,
you have no idea who i am...
"take me," you say
as i gnaw my way to you,
chew my way through you
horrendously woo you
until nothing else moves you...
i'll leave you wounded
& wanting more
as i scurry off
in search of another...
you'll never be the same,
some scars just never heal -
forever reminding you
of what you had
but did not see...

- 04/01/1995 4:18am - kenneth p rougeau jr

From My Reflection's Mouth
_________________________

little madman,
call your muse
& sing a song tonight.

little madman,
call our dance
& move us left & right.

little madman,
play the fool
& make us laugh tonight.

little madman,
hide your tears
keep your sorrows from the light.

(kings are jesters,
poets are fools,
& we're blinded by our sight.)

- 10/22/1995 2:06am - kenneth p rougeau jr

Closing The Book On Sanity
________________________

Traveling blindly
Through worlds of the bizarre.
Graffiti thick on the walls,
Some so old that it's bored itself in
Becoming part of the wall itself.
Pains run deep here,
Blood in the cracks
Of long abandoned hallways.
Tears leak from moldy ceiling tiles.
I'm lost here
In a world I've known since birth.
Each moment stranger than the last,
Each person somehow odder than the others.
My hands:
Stone, cold, white.
My staring eyes,
Seeing nothing.
Unspoken words ring out
From every corridor.
What will become of me
Here in these strange environs?
My grotesque features move,
Stumbling past dancing
Miracles of grace.
The floors are littered
With times sands
And faded pictures
From my memories.

- Date/Time unknown - kenneth p rougeau jr

sans all
______

i know nothing
of nothing,
save it's not what we claim it to be.
by labeling the non-existant,
we cancel out it's lack of being.

- 04/05/1995 2:00am - kenneth p rougeau jr

Speechless
__________

How to put the words...
They fight amongst themselves
Struggling to be expressed,
But quickly they're tangled & lost,
Seeming to die
Just at the edge of my lips,
The tip of my tongue.
I just wanted to tell you,
"I love you."

- 04/22/1993 9:45pm - kenneth p rougeau jr

Staring Eyes
____________

Who's thinking of me
While I'm thinking of you?
Who's dreaming a dream
That can't ever come true?
Who's thinking of me
While I'm thinking of you?
Who's out there alone
Seeking something & someone new?

Who's thinking of you
While you're thinking of me?
Who's wishing your eyes
Might somehow turn to see
That he sits now alone,
Watching you watching me,
Wondering if you reached out
Could you somehow set him free?

Who's staring at you
While I'm staring at you?
While I'm lost in your eyes
Drowning in thoughts of you?
Who's staring at me
While I'm staring at you?
Who's eyes are seeking mine
While mine are glued to you?

Who's looking at you
When you're looking at me?
Who's mourning the passing
Of things that have yet to be?
Who's looking at you
While you're looking at me?
Who wishes their staring
Could somehow make you see?

Who's reaching to me
As I reach out to you?
Who's hand remains empty
While mine hold tight to you?
Who's reaching towards me
While I'm reaching towards you?
Who's pounding naked fists on concrete walls
Desperately trying to find their way through?

Who's reaching towards you
As you reach out to me?
Who's arms are spread out wide
Wishing you were with them & not with me?
Who's reaching out to you
As you dance your way to me?
Who's tattered, tearstained heart
Hopes you'll turn away from me?

- 09/15/1993 1:03pm - kenneth p rougeau jr

Stealing Heaven
_____________

Conversations
Erupt around me -
Thin women
Discussing
Fat men
A the perverted
Converse
On the perverse.
Pages turned
In books unread -
No one's seeking knowledge,
Just an end
To end all the tragic endings,
Perhaps a moment's peace.
We're stealing heaven,
Trying to gain entry
Without passing through death's gate.

- 09/23/1993 11:08pm - kenneth p rougeau jr

Time Spent
__________

time
spent
singing
to myself,
sitting alone,
collecting
dust
&
phrases

- 10/03/1993 5:16am - kenneth p rougeau jr

Tragic
_______

First free,
Then trapped
In awe of grace & beauty.
Suffocating,
Needing air & space,
Room to breathe.
Finally released
& desperately needing
To be trapped again.

- 04/30/1993 5:00am - kenneth p rougeau jr

Truly
_______

smile truly
for you'll find
no joy
hidden
in sadness
& laughter
cannot touch
a soul
seduced
by sorrow.

- 10/07/1993 10:36am - kenneth p rougeau jr

untitled
________

passive aggression

hello, goodbye
i love you,
i'm leaving

the welcome mat mocks me
as i turn to walk away

- 07/16/1995 9:97am - kenneth p rougeau jr

untitled
________

damned.
forced to live in linear time
without the benefit of linear thought.

- 04/05/1995 2:15am - kenneth p rougeau jr

untitled
________

tired,
so very
terribly tired.
craving a rest
that sleep can't provide.
fitful dreams
send me up
from the darkened depths
to bathe in heat
& my own feverish sweat.
i need you to want me,
i want you to need me,
but we pass each other
coming & going
with g'morns & g'nights
on our lips.

- 11/28/1995 12:29am - kenneth p rougeau jr

untitled
________

i reach to you
& fall
as you take
a stranger's
hand.
(my sleep is
filled w/ demons
& visions
of your back
turning to me,
walking away
in the arms
of another)

- 03/22/1996 4:33pm - kenneth p rougeau jr

untitled
________

my profound lack of wisdom
causes me great distress
& all i seek is rest.

i can't believe
in god or heaven,
so where have i to go?

- 02/09/1996 6:38pm - kenneth p rougeau jr

untitled
________

clinking
clatter
of distant
dishes

breaking?

no,
banging together
in a hurried fashion

- 09/30/1993 10:36pm - kenneth p rougeau jr

untitled
________

i didn't want
to need
to know you

- Date/Time unknown - kenneth p rougeau jr

untitled
________

the page
stares back
blankly
wondering
what words
are within me,
wondering
what it is
i might be about.

the page
is neat
and lined
and clean,
so clean
and orderly
that i can't help
but scrawl
upon it,
can't resist
covering it
with ink,
making a mess
and calling it me.

- 09/30/1993 10:38pm - kenneth p rougeau jr

Valerie's Song
_____________

She runs playfully through my mind,
hair & eyes ablaze,
taunting, teasing,
almost close enough to touch.
I reach out to her
& she dances away,
laughing joyfully,
making me smile
at the tear that escapes my eye.

She runs & twirls & plays,
dancing to a song
that only she can hear -
a melody of the mind
& I love her all the more for it.

Silently in the moonlight,
she smile's her sad child's smile
sending a shiver down my spine.

Will she dance life's dance with me?

- Date/Time unknown - kenneth p rougeau jr

You Could Be An Angel
_____________________

In her mind, a silent corner,
She stood & faced the wall.
I reached out a hand to touch her tears,
but I couldn't catch them all.

She turned & looked into my eyes
& seemed about to speak,
so I motioned her to silence
& held her body, frail & weak.

"You could be an angel,"
I whispered in her ear
holding her closer
as she shook & trembled with fear.

Forever we stood there
unwilling to break the embrace
& I'll never forget the smile
that finally lit upon her face.

- Date/Time unknown - kenneth p rougeau jr

______________________________________

2006-12-02T02:40:00.000-08:00

Wonderfalls 1x00 - Unaired Pilot

This show rocked so hard! Can't believe they cancelled it. BASTARDS!

2006-11-28T05:09:00.000-08:00

You Can't Take The Sky From Me

I don't care, if I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me.

2006-11-27T21:56:00.000-08:00

Now You're a Man!

2006-11-26T22:12:00.000-08:00

Valerie

The Monkees

2006-11-22T00:48:00.000-08:00

You and Me

2006-11-21T20:00:00.000-08:00

Grey's Anatomy

2006-11-17T15:34:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space

by Spiritualized

2006-11-16T04:01:00.000-08:00

Eels - Trouble With Dreams

There's nothing that i wanna do
More than get alone and be with you
Trouble with dreams is they don't come true
And when they do they can't catch up to you

You don't need a thing from me
But i need something big from you
'cause you know i've got
An awful lot of big dreams

I'm walking down a lonely road
Clear to me now but i was never told
Trouble with dreams is you never know
When to hold on and when to let go

If you let me down it's alright
At least that leaves something for me
'cause you know i've got
An awful lot of big dreams

This is the life that i must lead now
Crossing fingers and wiping brow
Trouble with dreams is you can't pretend
Something with no beginning has an end

You don't need a thing from me
But i need something big from you
'cause you know i've got an awful lot of big dreams

2006-11-12T18:48:00.000-08:00

Emiliana Torrini - Today Has Been Okay

2006-11-04T23:10:00.000-08:00

Pon & Zi - Your Guardian Angel

2006-10-29T18:55:00.000-08:00

Pon & Zi - Your Guardian Angel

2006-10-20T00:49:00.000-07:00

My Sweetest Downfall - [THE LAST UNICORN music video]

You are my sweetest downfall...
I loved you first...

"How can you come to me now, when I am this?" - Molly Grue

2006-10-09T21:32:00.000-07:00

The Beatles - Rain (1966)

2006-10-06T16:56:00.000-07:00

Liana Stillman - Glitter & Be Gay

Live at Pan9

2006-10-05T23:14:00.000-07:00

World of Adventure

Fucking awesome!

2006-10-05T20:24:00.000-07:00

免費的擁抱 Free Hugs

FREE HUGS! Share the love, it's free!

2006-10-04T23:46:00.000-07:00

Imogen Heap Golden Ticket

Win Imogen Heap tickets and a vacation to New York! Watch the video for full details!

2006-09-18T00:36:00.000-07:00

Firefly-

All Is Full Of Love

2006-09-17T03:43:00.000-07:00

Final Fantasy- Some Where Only We Know

2006-09-14T02:02:00.000-07:00

Final Fantasy X

First Love - Final Fantasy X2 AMV

2006-09-12T18:43:00.000-07:00

Forever in Love

2006-09-12T12:11:00.000-07:00

landon pigg - can't let go (conan@8-1-06)

Without lifting a finger you're holding me back...

2006-09-12T10:49:00.000-07:00

Crossfade Cold Anime Music Video

"What I really meant to say
is I'm sorry for the way I am..."

2006-09-12T09:45:00.000-07:00

Rurouni Kenshin - Savin Me

"And all I need is you..."
"I'll show you what I can be..."
"Say it if it's worth savin' me!"

2006-09-12T09:29:00.000-07:00

Isn't someone missing me?

"Please, please forgive me..."
"Maybe someday you'll look up
and barely conscious you'll say to no one:
'Isn't something missing?'
You won't cry for my absence, I know.
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant?
Am I so insignificant?"

2006-09-07T17:32:00.000-07:00

I'm with you

Isn't anyone trying to find me?

2006-09-07T15:07:00.000-07:00

show me love

"Staring at your photograph, everything now in the past..."
"Never felt so lonely, I wish that you could show me love..."
"Still somebody loses 'cause there's no way to turn around..."
"Like a game of Pick-Up-Sticks played by fucking lunatics."

2006-09-07T03:34:00.000-07:00

Grow Old With You - Adam Sandler - The Wedding Singer

"It could be so nice growin' old with you."

2006-09-06T18:24:00.000-07:00

Spike - Rest in peace

"I died too many years ago,
but you can make me feel
like that isn't so..."
"... 'cause being with you touches me
more than I can say..."
"I know that I should go,
but I follow you like a man possessed.
There's a traitor here beneath my chest,
and it hurts me more than you'd ever guess..." "I can lay my body down,
but I can't find my sweet release..."
"So, you're not staying then?"

2006-09-06T17:57:00.000-07:00

Nickelback - How You Remind Me (Kingdome Hearts video)

"I said I love you and I swear I still do.
It must have been so bad
Cause living with me must have damn near killed you.
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am ..."

I created a Slide Show! Check it out!

2006-08-30T22:05:00.000-07:00

2006-08-30T17:39:00.000-07:00

Serenity Wins the Hugo Award

Woot! More recognition for a fabulous movie (and an even better TV series). 'Grats Joss Whedon!!!

2006-08-30T10:35:00.000-07:00

Neji and Hinata - Poe - Fly Away

Dedicated to the memory of the one I used to love.

2006-08-19T07:59:00.000-07:00

Most Of The Time

This song has been firmly stuck in my mind lately. See my latest two MySpace blogs for full details on why. www.myspace.com/kpr2

mIRC Song Requester - fixed!

2006-06-21T16:53:00.000-07:00

Rorschach Radio (feed your head)

I've just fixed a bug in the mIRC Song Requester script I'd released a month or two ago (just debugged Herris' script so it's not like I'm brilliant or anything lol).
Thanks to Mohd F. for pointing out that there was a problem.
For full details, have a look at Site News over at Rorschach Radio
If you have any problems getting it to work, just drop me a line:
rorschach.radio@gmail.com

Pretty Balanced (Check Out These Free MP3s)

2006-06-17T04:18:00.000-07:00

pretty balanced -- demos

"the future is here...online demos, available for free downloading, and whose sole purpose is the soul-purpose. pretty balanced showcases their moving and sometimes dark post-folk songs with the infusion of jazz and ballad piano, violin, glockenspiel, and drums. judith heiden's voice rounds off the collective union of sound featuring forest christenson and john siddell. stand-out tracks: 'green beans' and 'perfect timing.' by kait jarboe of ironicbond [www.Tatsuchan.ruby-eyes.org]"

Pretty Balanced is this month's Featured Artist on Rorschach Radio. Stop by and listen to them, or check out these links for some great mp3s:
pretty balanced -- demos
or
Pretty Balanced - Audiolegible

Rorschach Radio (feed your head)

2006-06-15T01:55:00.000-07:00

Rorschach Radio (feed your head)
Just went live with some new site changes over at the radio station. Cascading style sheets are nice but keeping the code strict, compliant HTML is a real pain in the arse.
In other news, I've discovered some pretty nifty
Firefox addons, my favorite of which is the Peekko Chat plugin
that lets you talk with other people who are surfing the websites
you're on. I've moved the radio station's chat over to their servers already, so drop by and say hello. You can request songs right from the chat
by using the !search and !request commands.

More updates to come! I'm also going to start trying to pay
a bit more attention to the blog, hehe. We'll see how that goes :p

'Til next time!
- KpR²

Rorschach Radio

2006-05-13T22:31:00.000-07:00

INTERNET RADIO STATION UPDATE:k-OMG!!111 is now Rorschach Radio.
http://komg.back2thebeat.com is now http://inkblot.wordgeek.net

We've got a huge list of music videos online now as well for your enjoyment & will soon have a lyrics database running as well. More to come!

Blog on...

2006-03-30T18:33:00.000-08:00

Well, blogspot.com has been good to me I guess (simple & easy to use), but I've also recently discovered MySpace.com & I really like the way they have things setup. especially the networking aspects. In any case, future blog entries & other misc. madness will be posted wily nily at both sites...

If you'd like to check out my new blog site, go to:

http://www.myspace.com/kpr2

Silver Streak

2006-03-28T23:32:00.000-08:00

Not much to blab about today, just sitting back to watch one of my favorite
Richard Pryor / Gene Wilder movies (not to mention Scatman Crothers - hell yeah!), the Silver Streak. Great stuff, and the first pairing of Wilder & Pryor (pretty much my generations Abbot & Costello you could say hehe).
Just watched Stir Crazy a couple of days ago & almost fell out my chair when I noticed it was directed by Sidney Poitier! Almost as surprised as when I realized Pryor had been one of the writers on Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks kicks ass, Young Frankenstein being bar none the coolest spoof of all time, with Spaceballs being right behind - IMHO anyway *cough*).
Other than that, hurling some nifty tracks into the ether for the world at large to enjoy. My favorites of late:
Blue Man Group & Dave Matthews - Sing Along
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
mc chris - Hijack

's 'bout it for the moment... Watched some Buffy the Vampire Slayer (up to Season 6, Disc 3 so far lol), some Angel (Season 3, Disc 3 at the mo'), and some Firefly (got the whole series & Serenity - fuckin' *LOVE* the show!) today... Sort of a Joss Whedon overdose, lol. Ah well, the guy's great at what he does & my girlfriend & I both have a blast watching his characters evolve. Granted, I'd rather be watching the continuing adventures of the crew of Red Dwarf, but although a movie is supposed to have been in the works, there hasn't been a peep in a couple of years. *sigh* I just keep hoping & checking, checking & hoping. I'll be pretty sad if it turns out to be another Good Omens - great book that was supposed to become a movie directed by Terry Gilliam, but fell through as things do.
Anyway, that's the news from here... I'll be back to work in the next day or two (w00t) and back on World of Warcraft (Finneghan, Horde - Kul Tiras) by this weekend (I'm stoked!). Fun fun...

Til next time,
KpR²

k-OMG!!111 Internet Radio

2006-03-27T02:26:00.000-08:00

w00t!
k-OMG!!111 Internet Radio is on the air & in full swing!
I'm havin' a fuckin' blast hehe! We've had relatively steady traffic all things considered (like for instance the fact that I really haven't done shit to promote it yet, lol). I've even got a couple of regular listeners if ya can believe it! Arkansas & Amsterdam seem to dig the mix anyway ;p
Getting the rest of the station site itself in order before I go back to work in the next day or two - not much left to do really (tho I hope to have a friend of mine retool the whole damn mess when he gets time - he's a much better designer than I - http://www.cdcstudios.com - check it out)...
Not much new other than that... More later ;p

KpR²

& the band played on...

2006-03-23T06:00:00.000-08:00

w00t!
OK, I came up with a (hopefully) better name for my radio station & have been working on putting together everything that isn't already up (website, etc).
The new station name is
KOMG One Eleventy-One (hope ya get the joke there lol)
& you can check out the website at http://komg.back2thebeat.com or tune in directly by clicking [ THIS LINK ]. You can send rants, raves & requests to me via the following messengers:

AIM: KOMG111
MSN: KOMG111@HOTMAIL.COM
Yahoo: KOMGRadio
ICQ: 333-299-580
IRC: Coming Soon

\m/(>.<)\m/
KpR²

Time Flies...

2006-03-19T03:14:00.000-08:00

*grin*
I had a feeling something shiny would distract me & it would be a bit before I got back to posting on this site again.

I've gotten a bit further in my stop motion work, and am still taking stereo
photo pairs to be made into anaglyph 3D pics when I get the time.

In the meantime I've been looking for work (always fun oh yeah), and
playing the latest MMO to come my way - World of Warcraft. Helluva lot of fun! I've been taking pics from within the game to convert to 3D as well & will post them when I have time to convert them.

If anyone wants to pop in & say "Hi!" on WoW, I usually play on Kul Tiras as Finneghan (lvl 50 Undead Rogue).

I've also finally taken action on an idea I've been kicking around for a couple of years now. I've setup an online radio station. I've got a huge music collection & am always DJing for myself & those around me anyway... What the hell, eh?

It's still in the developmental stages as I try to iron out a couple of minor technical issues & spend a lot of time weeding through my music collection, creating playlists, etc. Should be a lot of fun!

If anyone wants to check it out
("umm, dude, no one reads this" - yeah yeah, I know),
you can find the station here:
[Pirate Radio]
as long as you have Winamp.
I'll have a website as well as Media Player connectivity soon...

Just thought I'd drop by and actually post something since it has been so long...

More to come...

KpR²

Stop the world...

2006-01-01T07:40:00.000-08:00

Ugh, it's 8am! Sunlight! <*hiss!*>

I've been up all night tinkering around with my new homemade greenscreen and testing some stop motion animation out. I'm new to both and was having a blast, even though the end results of both were pretty crummy, I'm sure they'll improve as I fiddle with different ideas.

In any case, here's a quick run-down on the components that make up my new greenscreen:
2 pieces of lime green poster board (one for a back wall & one for a floor)
1 large picture frame (it just happened to be there, I was gonna tape the shit to the walls, hehe)
8 small squares of duct tape to hold the poster board down.
The whole mess is lit from above with a fluorescent light that was already in the room. I need to pick up some poseable lamps at some point in the near future, but will make due with what I've got onhand for now.

While I was picking up the materials for the greenscreen, I swung by the toy department, mostly looking for models & miniatures that might be fun to work into some of these video projects. I ended up spending $5 for 10 little cans of Play-Doh(TM-beatch!) in assorted colors. My girlfriend, Elizabeth, spent an hour or so quickly creating a family of clay mutants for me to animate.

While I do have a camcorder handy, I chose to use my still camera in order to capture stereoscopic views of each frame (by capturing a left and right view of each frame) so I could render the end result as a 3D anaglyph video. After studying the end results, I believe I can achieve faster, cleaner images by using a camcorder and frame capturing from that footage. This will keep the variation in camera movement to a minimum. Sadly, this means that 3D video of my stop motion animations will have to wait until I can afford another camcorder (or borrow one for a day or so).

The stop motion animation was thrown together without thought for plot or direction. I was simply trying to see what we might be able to do with what we have, and get an idea of what what we will need for future endeavors. I'm pretty happy with the results, all things considered, and can't wait to start focusing on putting something a bit more substantial together.

So it begins...

2005-12-31T17:09:00.001-08:00

Wheee...

Thought I'd finally break down and start randomly muttering into the ether since I find myself twiddling my thumbs so frequently anyway (usually waiting on this damned computer to finish rendering or compiling one project or another).

I intend to post on this relatively frequently, most likely as a way to document some of the things I'm teaching myself lately & hopefully share tips/tricks w/ others who have similar interests.

My most recent forays into self education include stereoscopic (3D) video and photography (red/cyan anaglyphs - click HERE for free 3D glasses!), as well as 2D to 3D video conversion (not as easy as it sounds), chromakey (blue or green screen) video, composite video editing, playing the guitar, and juggling of various sorts. I've also been working with mixing music, graphical modeling & animation, stop motion animation, and video game programming (most notably MOD building for Neverwinter Nights, but I do tinker with quite a bit of other progz as well).

Whew. That's a freakin' mouthful and probably doesn't cover a lot of things that are currently escaping my generally muddled mind.

In any case, I'll be posting a lot of my 3D photos and maybe links to some of the screwy video projects I'm working on, not to mention logging in whenever it occurs to me so that I can babble endlessly about absolutely nothing in particular for hours on end...

[ mc chris rocks! \m/(>.<)\m/ ]

'Nuff said,

KpR²