Marius

Writer's Block: Music for Thought

2009-06-22T17:27:46Z

When you have to study or get work done, what music (if any) do you put on to help you concentrate?

The Call of Ktulu, by Metallica. I find the lyrics strangly soothing.

Let's try this one...

2008-09-05T18:49:09Z

Several peeps in my flist have posted this. I'd like to try it. So, please, indulge me. :D

• Post three clues about yourself;
• Post anonymously, of course (you might need to log out for a sec);
• Let's see if I can't guess who you are.

Ps. You're allowed to tell me if I'm right or wrong :)

count_marius @ 2008-03-14T10:08:00

2008-03-14T09:08:55Z

An influential game designer is gone...

2008-03-05T09:15:53Z

Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008)

Demise of the Silver Surfer...

2008-02-08T08:59:50Z

count_marius @ 2008-01-23T13:58:00

2008-01-23T13:01:07Z

Heath Ledger

4 April 1979 - 22 January 2008

Guitar Hiro...

2008-01-01T20:28:13Z

Darn Guitar Hero! Now I can't listen to guitary stuff without visualizing circles and lines flying at me!

count_marius @ 2008-01-01T00:29:00

2007-12-31T23:31:09Z

It's 2008 here, for allmost half an hour. So, happy new year!!!!

Gesundheit...

2007-12-17T21:27:39Z

Deck epiphany

2007-12-17T20:02:42Z

count_marius @ 2007-12-16T21:06:00

2007-12-16T20:03:44Z

Also, so much vegging out this weekend that if I should eat lettuce, it's canibalism.

Well, I got out today for some tabacco, and it's really, really cold outside. There is even ice on the water everywhere.

count_marius @ 2007-12-09T19:30:00

2007-12-09T18:33:13Z

Today proved quite a good day to get some boosters.

A Sower! yay! And a foil Cryptic Command. My other CC is foil as well. Both will be good in my Faerie deck. :D

count_marius @ 2007-11-15T09:23:00

2007-11-15T08:25:19Z

Happy Birthday missyk8. May the stars be right this year! All hail the Scorpio!

Now we're cooking with gas...

2007-10-22T18:49:07Z

Dreams...

2007-10-16T08:50:27Z

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
- Soren Kierkegaard

This would make an awesome TV show...

2007-10-12T09:31:02Z

Captain Obed Marsh: Are you ready kids?
Kids: Ia! Ia! Captain.
Captain: I can't hear you...
Kids: Ia! Ia! Captain!!
Captain: Oh! Who lives in a city under the sea?
Kids: Great Cuh-too-loo!
Captain: Abhorrent and dreaming and blasphemous is he!
Kids: Great Cuh-too-loo!
Captain: If unspeakable horrors be something you wish...
Kids: Great Cuh-too-loo!
Captain: Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish!
Kids: Great Cuh-too-loo!
Captain: Ready?
EveryBody: Great Cuh-too-loo! Great Cuh-too-loo! Great Cuh-too-loo! Great Cuh-too-loo!
Captain: Great Cuh-too-loo!! Ia! Ia!

Observation

2007-10-05T08:19:43Z

- I was standing in the park wondering why frisbees got bigger as they get closer. Then it hit me.

Not pulling your leg...

2007-10-03T06:49:28Z

North Carolina pair feud over leg
The leg was stored in a smoker after Mr Wood lost his home

A US man who stored his amputated leg in a barbecue smoker that was later auctioned off is locked in a custody dispute with the man who bought it.
John Wood's smoker was sold to Shannon Whisnant last week after he fell behind on payments at the storage facility in North Carolina where it was kept.

He wants his leg back but Mr Whisnant says he has a receipt for the smoker's contents and wants to share ownership.

Mr Wood's leg was amputated above the knee after a plane crash in 2004.

He asked to keep the leg so he could be buried as a whole man when he died, and stored it at the facility in Maiden after losing his home.

But when Mr Wood failed to pay the necessary rental fees, the storage company auctioned the smoker and all its contents.

'Strange incident'

After buying the smoker last Tuesday, Mr Whisnant looked inside and found a man's leg wrapped in a wire screen.

"Halloween's just around the corner - the price will go up if I get the leg"
- Shannon Whisnant

He initially gave the leg to the police, who concluded it had not been removed as a result of a crime and sent it to a funeral home until Mr Wood could pick it up.

But after making money by charging adults $3 (£1.47) and children $1 (49p) to look inside the empty smoker, Mr Whisnant asked for it back.

His request was refused by the funeral home, so he decided to try to persuade Mr Wood to share custody and profits.

"I told him I'd share custody of it..." Mr Whisnant said.

"It's a strange incident and Halloween's just around the corner. The price will go up if I get the leg."

'Despicable'

Mr Wood, who now lives in Greenville, South Carolina, has insisted he is not interested in using the leg to make money and plans to travel to Maiden as soon as possible to reclaim it.

"I just think it's despicable," he said.

"I don't mind having the 15 minutes of fame, but I'm not looking to really profit off this thing.

"He's making a freak show out of it."

Having had his offer rejected, Mr Whisnant has threatened to begin legal action if the leg is not returned to him by next week.

He says he has a receipt showing he bought both the smoker and its contents at the auction.

"Everybody knows it's mine, period," he said. "And if anyone tries to take it, I want everything they got."

Plz enter password...

2007-10-02T09:08:39Z

count_marius @ 2007-09-28T12:16:00

2007-09-28T10:17:57Z

Neat!

2007-09-21T20:06:21Z

Munchkin goes Goomi! That's pretty cool. :D

Fthagnx Kate!

2007-09-21T08:31:16Z

http://lolthulhu.com

Arrr me hearties!

2007-09-19T07:59:08Z

Arrrr! What day it be!? Well, the Cap'n will tell you, me hearties!

It's TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!!!

Arrrr!

Now listening to...

2007-09-14T17:45:33Z

Now listening to Goose. A colleage recommended it to me, and I quite like it. It may be too electronical for some viewers, but I quite like it. Weird stuff from Belgium.

Goose was formed in the summer of 2000 in Kortrijk, Belgium. Although first starting out as an AC/DC cover group, they quickly turned to writing and recording their own songs, heavily incorporating synthesizers into them. They won Humo's Rock Rally in 2002 and later that year recorded their debut single "Audience" with Teo Miller. Coca Cola used their debut single for TV adverts across Europe. They were signed to Skint Records in 2006 and released their second single "Black Gloves" in July that year. A video was created for "Black Gloves" by Nothing To See Here and was directed by Steve Glashier. Their debut album Bring It On released on September 11, 2006. They also scored the tune to Heineken's Champions League campaign.

LOL!

2007-09-10T20:06:44Z