Did you ever have one of those moments where you're watching a movie or tv show, and you just know you've seen a performer before? And then it hits you that you saw them in a mst3k ep? Through the never do anything productive again device that is known as Hulu I've been watching the cheesy fun Swamp Thing tv series. In the episode Falco an enraged half bird half man tries to kill the scientist who created him. I knew the actor looked familar and looked up his, Peter Mark Richman's, imdb entry. Richman was none other than agent from h.a.r.m Adam Chance. That's right, your dad's alcoholic golf buddy as a vengeance minded  mutant. He was much better, not to mention more likeable too. So, ever have that happen to you?

My neighbors are arguing outside at 1:15 A.M. They are so classy.

I'm moving back to Arizona in a couple of months. Not because of the neighbors, but I won't miss them.

New sketchbook drawings on my Flickr.

I was watching Airplane today, and noticed something funny.

The Navigator, Victor Basta, looked familiar to me.

After a few seconds, I realized where I'd seen him.

He's coming to America... today!

That's right. Peter Graves shares a cockpit with his young clone in Airplane!

Ok listen up those of you who ever thought Otis wasn't the brightest dog (I'm looking squarely at you, tritium):

This weekend, Otis gave us a run for our money by escaping from our apartment TWICE when we weren't home.

(I start to tell the story to my dad, and he says, "how does a dog do that? Does he order a pizza and sneak through when thedelivery guy comes to the door?")

Friday morning Norman and I get home from grocery shopping and we open the door to our apartment building and Otis bounds out! We get upstairs and find he had pried open the screen window that looks onto our enclosed back porch (which has a stairwell, and leads to the back porches of the other two apartments, and the basement).

This freaked us out. Who knew he could do that! So the next day when we went to the movies we only left that window a crack open, thinking he can't fit through that... we get out of the movies to find voicemail from our downstairs neighbors. Apparently he did it again! pried the window wide open with his nose and head, and BROKE the screen this time.

He was having a jolly old time running up and down the stairs when our neighbor found him, scooped him up and put him back inside via the window, crawled in after him, locked the window behind him and left through the door (thanks neighbor!!).

Needless to say I spent this morning at home depot looking for window guards but they didn't have anything that was right. Does anyone have any suggestions? We can keep that one window closed just fine, but I worry about our windows in the front, where escaping out the window would mean instant death. It will get REALLY hot in our apartment with the windows closed. Ideas?

Damn dog.

i refuse to catch the bouquet but i will try on the bachelorette crown. i have, um, standards? or something. ann marie's bachelorette party was bowling plus karaoke aka allison's favorite things. what will we do for my bachelorette if i ever get married?

best part: erica and i sang "end of the road" and SHE LIKED IT. converting my friends to my love of karaoke is one of my main missions in life. mission accomplished!

more photos here.

i have been somewhat out of commission from livejournal these days mostly due to celebrating other people's love. last weekend, i traveled down to north carolina to see larry (of unrequited high school love fame, now a friend, obviously) get married. stories from the weekend:

-i had my worst experience flying out of laguardia yet. my flight was delayed then (along with all the other flights to north carolina friday night) canceled and then reinstated. who knew that was even possible? this all happened as my phone was dying leaving me to call lara, who i spent friday night with, and yell "flight 229! i'm getting on the plane! look it up!" argh.
-ryan, my ex-boyfriend and one of the groomsmen, did not show up at the wedding. i have somewhat obvious mixed feelings about that.
-the wedding reception involved games during which the bride and groom were blindfolded and had to pick their new spouse out of line-up by either touching their biceps or getting kissed on the cheek. i was scared.
-the reception ended at 8pm leading to the groom's family and friends buying a lot of beer from the gas station across the street and getting drunk in the hotel lobby. a game of flip cup occurred. one of the guests challenged her husband to a one-on-one game and vomited in her lap and in the plastic plant in the lobby as a result. this story is much funnier when i tell it in person.
-melissa and i drove from NC to virginia sunday afternoon via route 29. this route takes you through LOTS AND LOTS OF EMPTY LAND. they probably call it farms. we called it "where is civilization? we're hungry and need gas."

larry is married now! that is awesome.

1) Sports. Poor Collingwood Magpies. They traveled all the way from Melbourne to play a good game of footy, and wound up running around ANZ Stadium all alone. At least it seemed that way. The Sydney Swans sure as hell didn't show up. Final score, Sydney: 6.14 (50), Collingwood 11.13 (79).

2) Home. Renderer Ray, the cute but indecipherable Scot fixing up one of our fireplaces for installation of a non-clankyscary gas heater, has quickly & efficiently been and gone. The somewhat-less-quick-and-efficient heater people were called mid-last-week and, here in the middle of winter, announced they'd be right over to install our shiny new heater! ... um, Friday. Not last Friday, mind you. This coming Friday. With temps dipping into brr as we sit in an uninsulated home. Oh well; a few more days of carrying our li'l electric space heater room to room with us, and then it'll all be over. We grumble (well, I do, big time) now, but in the years to come as we cuddle in front of the roaring fake fireplace watching dvds, we'll look back on this and laugh and laugh and laugh.
Maybe.

3) Garden. The Aussie sun heats things up quickly, though, given the chance. Well, outside the dacha. Inside stays pretty cool. But yesterday was blueskied in the morning, long enough for the yard to warm up and me to get out and do some much-needed weeding and puttering and one-with-the-earth-one-with-the-earthness. And joy of joys, one of my recently-planted grevilleas is putting out small first-time tries at blooms! Not bad for a li'l baby plant; means I must be doing something right. A good sign that as it reaches bigger size, it'll be a mad blooming colourful thing. And one of the dwarf Capt. Cook banksias nearby also looks like it's trrrrrying to spoosh forth some bottlebrushy blossoms too. I'm cheering it on.

4) Cheap Sex. We went out to pooftersauna Kens Of Kensington last night for a tawdry romp. Action was for the most part depressingly slow-to-nonexistent, though I messed around with a very amply-endowed blokey sort named Mick for a while who seemed nice and worth maybe dragging to the dacha some future eve for some hubzbindfiancé-inclusive fun. At first I thought he said his name was Nick, which I thought was cool because (a) it's my hubzbindfiancé's name and (b)I've always thought Nick was one of the sexiest names ever anyway, so when I realised he was rather Mick, I was sort of disappointed. But oh well, he was friendly and magnificently hung, so what the the heck.

5) Twoo Wuv. nverzeanu's and my California trip & marriage plans approach. We need to get on the ball a bit and make some plans for celebrating with our Bay Area friends. A more-organised and carefully-put-together celebratory soiree will take place in Sydney once we're back and recover a bit financially. But for now - must work out the ceremony with kitchenbeard, our celebrant-to-be, and scheme whens and wheres of post-noop-shoo-wull hangings-of-out. I am a bad organiser, but duties seem to be falling on me to muster the Yank wing of the Hospodar-Verne Marriage World Tour 2008, so I'd best get on it, and give Nick something to compete against when he plans the Down Under versions ...

go here for the rest of the bachelorette photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericabrooke/sets/72157606015407934/

jon and i are watching dinosaurs right now.

Hello there

I was in the neighbourhood, checking things out and I cannot help but recognize that I have just passed the 2500 mark on this here livejournal friend list. Do you know that this more people than there were enrolled in my whole university? That's a fact.

It's pretty hard to actually know that many people, but I am lucky to get so many nice comments for the pictures I post here that I'd like to know some things! So I came up with an idea! Everyone knows I make comics with my younger self, we tend to disagree on some things but it works out in the end. They can be pretty telling as to what this lady is all about, plus, they are really a treat to make. What about you?

I'd like to invite anyone who is inclined to post their own conversation with a little self right here, and maybe we'll get to know each other a bit, and have some fun with it. I know some of you draw because I've totally seen you do it.

(Anyway if you ask me, these are the sorts of things that make livejournal so enjoyable, really)



edit- I just came back here and whoa

edit edit - damn you guys like your dinosaurs

i had a surprisingly good time last night. i knew i would like bowling but i had NO IDEA how much i would like karaoke, especially with next to no voice. end of the road by boyz II men is totally me and allison's jam, with her doing the singing and me doing the speaking part. we also sang cry me a river, hit me baby one more time, etc etc, (they didn't have any salt n pepa), and i played a lot of tambourine.

today i still have no voice and also surprise my arms and legs are covered in hives!

we're going to see hancock but other than that i am going to try to rest a lot today. i don't get sick a lot, but when i get sick i really go for broke.

check out the rest of the photos here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericabrooke/sets/72157606011855049/

and please note, there are even more photos of the bouquet of bows in there.

This is the Bateman Top 12-1/2 for the week ending 7 July 2008:

This week	Last week	Artist	Title
1	4	No Age	Teen Creeps
2	6	Santogold	Your Voice
3	5	Opeth	Bridge of Sighs
4	8	Portishead	The Rip
5	9	Black Keys	Lies
6	11	Weezer	Troublemaker
7	12	Gossip	Careless Whisper (Live)
8	16	Ladytron	Runaway
9	17	Girl Talk	Like This
10	14	Vivian Girls	Where Do You Run To
11	19	Steinski	Lesson 3 (History of Hip Hop)
12	18	Judas Priest	Visions (Radio Edit)
13	20	Women	Black Rice
14	--	Death Cab For Cutie	I Will Possess Your Heart
15	--	Opeth	Coil
16	--	Lil Wayne	A Milli
17	--	Three 6 Mafia	Lolli Lolli
18	--	Four Tet	Ribbons
19	--	Dillinja	Grimey
20	--	Susumu Yokota	The Sin on Almighy God, Repected and Believed by the Masses

Combining sound from Space Mutiny & footage from the WALL-E trailer makes..

SPACE MUTIN-E!