Why, hello. Welcome to Funk Sheet Beach.
This blog is basically going to be a phantasmagoria of random musings and occurences in the life of a nonfictional character narrated in the first person. Since its a blog about myself, I guess it would be a good idea to begin with a little bit of information about this kid you will be a reading about. My name is Wright. I'm 18 years old and if you are one who is concerned with social labels, I can be catagorized as "Indie". My favorite bands are Modest Mouse, The Mars Volta, Porcupine Tree, Sigur Ros, and The White Stripes. I believe that the future of music is minimalism, dissonance, and pure chaos, so thats what I listen to. I look like a taller, skinnier Harry Potter with peircings whose choice in fashion centers around loose jeans, ridiculous, esoteric t-shirts, thrift store blazers, and the occasional paisley tie. I have no religious affiliation. I believe we are just biological masses of cells, proteins, and atoms and when we die our bodies decompose and become one with nature. No matter how good or bad you are, everyone in the end makes the world more beautiful. Its rather cynical, but its very poetic in a way. Ok. Now back to the more tangeble stuff. I go to Ithaca College. I currently have no major, but I'm trying to study film. I partake in every type of art out there, but my artistic specialty is in Flash cartoons and drawing comics. I'm most famous for my comic series "Shank and Shiv" which has been read by um... lets see now... about 6 people. My dream is to make cartoons for Adult Swim. I am an unmedicated diagnosed schizophrenic, so I'm just insane enough to make that dream come true. I love how I just practically blew past that fact. Its the lack of sanity that makes the blog interesting.
Right now even I'm wondering WTF is with the name of this blog. I awoke one day to find a post it note on my head with the words "Funk Sheet Beach" in sharpie. A scenario that seems very familiar to the movie "The Machinist". Strangely it was written in my handwriting, but I never wrote it (*dramatic music* dun dun dun...). It's three words that are all dangerously close to profanity, but I believe that there is some deeper meaning. Wait... no there isn't. It's three words that are all dangerously close to profanity. So when making my blog, I turned my head and there was that post it note again, so I thought "Why the hell not".
I have to be honest. I have to do this blog for a class I'm in. We had the choice of making a blog, a website, or an avatar using Second Life or There. The point is we have to make an online presence and see how it develops over an 8 week period. I picked the blog because I'm way too lazy to make a site and way too poor to pay for There or Second Life. Even though its a "fun" assignment, its still an assignment so it has the miasma of "Crap, I have to write in this damn blog for class" hanging over it. But that's just part of my uber-cynical nature. I won't do anything unless I have to, but will not enjoy it because it's something I have to do. Silly, huh.
I apologize if this first post isn't that incredibly interesting. It's mostly just expository information to get the reader to know the main character of this story. Hopefully this will feature much more character development as the chapters progress.
Welp... see ya later.
This blog is basically going to be a phantasmagoria of random musings and occurences in the life of a nonfictional character narrated in the first person. Since its a blog about myself, I guess it would be a good idea to begin with a little bit of information about this kid you will be a reading about. My name is Wright. I'm 18 years old and if you are one who is concerned with social labels, I can be catagorized as "Indie". My favorite bands are Modest Mouse, The Mars Volta, Porcupine Tree, Sigur Ros, and The White Stripes. I believe that the future of music is minimalism, dissonance, and pure chaos, so thats what I listen to. I look like a taller, skinnier Harry Potter with peircings whose choice in fashion centers around loose jeans, ridiculous, esoteric t-shirts, thrift store blazers, and the occasional paisley tie. I have no religious affiliation. I believe we are just biological masses of cells, proteins, and atoms and when we die our bodies decompose and become one with nature. No matter how good or bad you are, everyone in the end makes the world more beautiful. Its rather cynical, but its very poetic in a way. Ok. Now back to the more tangeble stuff. I go to Ithaca College. I currently have no major, but I'm trying to study film. I partake in every type of art out there, but my artistic specialty is in Flash cartoons and drawing comics. I'm most famous for my comic series "Shank and Shiv" which has been read by um... lets see now... about 6 people. My dream is to make cartoons for Adult Swim. I am an unmedicated diagnosed schizophrenic, so I'm just insane enough to make that dream come true. I love how I just practically blew past that fact. Its the lack of sanity that makes the blog interesting.
Right now even I'm wondering WTF is with the name of this blog. I awoke one day to find a post it note on my head with the words "Funk Sheet Beach" in sharpie. A scenario that seems very familiar to the movie "The Machinist". Strangely it was written in my handwriting, but I never wrote it (*dramatic music* dun dun dun...). It's three words that are all dangerously close to profanity, but I believe that there is some deeper meaning. Wait... no there isn't. It's three words that are all dangerously close to profanity. So when making my blog, I turned my head and there was that post it note again, so I thought "Why the hell not".
I have to be honest. I have to do this blog for a class I'm in. We had the choice of making a blog, a website, or an avatar using Second Life or There. The point is we have to make an online presence and see how it develops over an 8 week period. I picked the blog because I'm way too lazy to make a site and way too poor to pay for There or Second Life. Even though its a "fun" assignment, its still an assignment so it has the miasma of "Crap, I have to write in this damn blog for class" hanging over it. But that's just part of my uber-cynical nature. I won't do anything unless I have to, but will not enjoy it because it's something I have to do. Silly, huh.
I apologize if this first post isn't that incredibly interesting. It's mostly just expository information to get the reader to know the main character of this story. Hopefully this will feature much more character development as the chapters progress.
Welp... see ya later.
posted by Wright at 7:22 PM
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Disasters in the Internet Age
On Sept. 15, through a private Web site called LATalk.org, Ruby pleaded for help.
Just like so many Americans my friend loves the clubs and pop r & b lyrics so he went ahead and built an awesome website about pop r & b lyrics. When he's in high spirit he goes to the site and start reciting all his favorite pop r & b lyrics. Says it's good for the heart. Guess what? I gave it a shot and it works great!
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