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- Erik Skinner

 

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Hiatus; Return

For anyoen who noticed I was gone.. I'm back. Was on the road for a good 4 weeks, and it was a blast. Now that I'm "done with school" I'll be making some videos here and there for sure. Other than that, not much to report... have tons of catching up to do as far as internet video goes!

 
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End Blog

Laziness has won, and my once vigorous goal to take over funny or die's blog space has now waned.

Perhaps I'll write more in the future, just not as aggressively as I have.

the gears are in motion to make a move out to Atlanta in the near future. To which I say, hell yes.

That's all for now.

 
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SEPTIWEEKLY UPDATE (week of march 9 issue 5)

I write this during hour 48 of my minimal-sleep-marathon. I slept about two hours earlier today (as in Thursday), and about an hour sometime the day before (3-4 o clock, therabouts) and since then, had been up since 7am. It's about 6:10am two days later now.

I'm considering going in super early to the editing lab, and getting some bad ass graphics done. Specifically, I want to knock out the commercial for man vs. etc. I say etc because the full title is too long and i cant necessarily remember it off the top of my head. By the way, just you wait til trynottodieman is complete. I had been working for a goal of 11 minutes, but now Im thinking itll be even better if I condence it to the perfect point where laughter covers up jokes, but not so much that you miss more than one joke at a time... multiple viewings: gold. I think this laughter-compression has an optimal duration of 8 or so minutes. Some jokes I did take out, but now I'm thinking I'll put them back in... and add some more with the music and sound effects. And add the eagle into a few more shots. It will be awesome.

Anyway, I've been watching Home Movies a bunch (also The Apprentice and Beauty and the Geek, but those are entirely unrelated) and I have found that I really enjoy imitating H. Jon Benjamin's voice. I think that's his voice. Anyway, despite the joy I receive from imitating his voice, it does tear my throat up a little bit, so I'll have to try and cut down a little bit.

I worked up a business proposal which i sent to this company that sells scissors, or shears, or whatever... I quoted them 1200 bucks, so if I get the job that'll be awesome, especially since the whole thing I'm estimating will only take me about... a day. It'll be helpful in landing other easy jobs like that on a contractual basis. As far as crap jobs like that go, contracts are the way to go, screw salaried work.

Alright, time for either a short short nap, or a shower... one of the two, I'm not sure yet.

 
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Turtlenecks

As I wait out the horrible length of time before my physics test (I've been awake for... uh...

I can't do math too well right now, hold on....

... 24 hours minus 6, thats about when I woke up... oh 18 hours, right. However, that was only about an hour of sleep after being up for about 7 hours before that. So... well, I'm just really tired.

Anyway, my opinion of turtlenecks. They're named after a literally retarded animal, and therefore there stands little reason not to think that clothing item is also retarded, if not more so. Any female I have seen wearing one looks very stiff in a way... it's not attractive at all. Plus the clothing itself is not attractive. Alright, here's a sexy idea, lets put a huge honkin collar on your shirt that kinda just flops however it wants and is generally 4 sizes larger than your neck to add to the floppiness. Oh and be sure to choose the ugliest colors possible.

Ok, if a turtleneck is black, and has a properly fitting neck, I can see that as acceptable. Especially if the wearer is tall, thin, and has a long neck. Short people, and especially short wide people, do not belong in turtlenecks. Seriously, a regular shirt is a turtleneck on these folks. If you have a short neck, don't wear a turtleneck!

That brings me to another thought, there seems to be a large number of people that absolutely must maintain a temperature of 90+ degrees AROUND their body to be comfortable. I don't understand that at all, I think the biggest difference I've noticed is between Coloradoans and Californians. Most actual Coloradoans (or New Yorkers, well one New Yorker who I rode with) will be more comfortable in a cooler car when it's, imagine this, cool outside. Crack a window, put the vents on cool, all that. However, Californians tend to crank up the heat, windows cranked shut, if the temperature drops below 70. What's the deal? Californians, talk to me, what's your deal? Enjoy the cooooool weather, it's taking a job away from your body for a while, take advantage of it eh?

That's all for now... almost time for physics :-\

 
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SEPTIWEEKLY UPDATE (week of march 9 issue 4)

I suck at this whole writing in a timely manner when giving myself a daily deadline thing. Sorry, I mean a septiweekly deadline... Yeah.

So, it's obviously not Wednesday as I type this, but hey, none of the rest of these septiweekly updates were written on the actual day they are about. Plus I still haven't gone to sleep from Wednesday yet, so the way I see it, it's not really Thursday yet... Kind of, I guess.

Yesterday, I don't... oh yes, I do remember my day. I had class, we watched all the projects that were "picture locked" though my file was initially not going to be gotten to because it was last in the alphabet, so I changed the file name to slide it up the ranks to be the next project viewed after our mid-class break.

My class is over-ish now, so I gotta go waaaaahhhhhhhhoooooooooo physics test soon!

 
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SEPTIWEEKLY UPDATE (week of march 9 issue 3)

So as I stated in my last blog, I slept in and missed class. I then proceeded to take the light rail down to campus for my second class (which I now have officially attended 4.5 times). I didn't realize a lab was due today though... so I suppose I'll have to do that in a short while to turn in before the test on thursday. Anyway, walking to class, I walked past the teacher of the class I missed. I don't think he noticed me, but if he did, he hadn't noticed that I had or hadn't noticed him, btu then again, he may have the same impression in reverse. Either way, awkward explanations were avoided when I didn't make any eye contact. Really, it may not have even been him, but his general shape, awkward gait, and air style makes me 90% sure.

Aside form that, nothing new to speak of, except for one thing. If I become wealthy enough not to have to worry about a lot of things, I think I'll take up falconry, because hawks are freakin awesome.