1.21 Gigawatts of Opinion

Apartment Searching

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:34:39 -0700

We got to look at apartments today and man that was fun. We found a really nice two bedroom for $695 a month. The complex has a swimming pool, sanua, hot tub and work out room. Did I mention that it also has a Pellet Stove? I LOVE THEM. My grandmother has one at her place. I sit by the thing a ton when I'm down there. Now, we just have to apply for the place. I have to get a full time job and I'm set. Easy...

At least $695 divided three ways is not much at all!

New Job

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:32:16 -0700

My theatre job has also turned out to be not that great. Why do I keep taking these jobs that I know I can't stand? well, now I'm looking to move out with my girlfriend Lucia and our friend Mike. I need something fulltime. Applied for Mall Security today. Mike works there now. Need a drivers license. I don't have one. I'll get one if they hire me though.

Waiting for Godot

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:30:22 -0700

So I went on that audition for Waiting for Godot and they didn't see anyone's monologues. Just had us read from the script. So I'm there for about 5 minutes reading with another guy. We get stage directions like "This is poetry at it's core." and "This must be stark!"

Often times directors give these sort of images to actors to get their meaning across. If I had a minute to think I would have been able to come up with something more poetic and stark for my reading but sometimes that just isn't possible.

In the long run it didn't matter at all since they posted the audition again, this time requesting only men who can play 30+ and no woman at all. I should mention there were more woman auditioning for this show then men. I don't mind so much for myself. It's the curse (and blessing!) of a youthful face, but what a waste of time for the women who would not even be considered that showed up. Perhaps they should have put: "No woman and only men who look 30+" to save everyone time.

121gigawatts.tk

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Thu, 6 Oct 2005 04:38:59 -0700

I've also got a free domain for the blog! www.121gigawatts.tk! If you don't mind the lack of .com .net .org this is perfect for you.

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Free 206 Voicemail

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Thu, 6 Oct 2005 03:20:00 -0700

After digging around a little online I found an awesome free voicemail service. Currently it only gives out 206 area code numbers but it is entirely free.

Callers will hear nothing but your greeting, and when checking your messages you'll hear a short advertisement. Not bad for something as useful as that!

Check it out here!

Call me! 206-984-6346

Awesome 80s Video Game MP3s

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Sat, 1 Oct 2005 04:35:00 -0700

Check out these 10 awesome video game themes (MP3s) from retrocrush!

Interview and Audition Update

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:17:37 -0700

Job aquired!

I had my interview at the theatre last night and despite horrible traffic causing me to be late (I allowed 30 minutes extra too!) I got offered the job. It's great, but only lasts two months then the job ends. Sad, but at least it is at one of the seven big theatre and I think I'll like it there. Loved working at Intiman. Oh did I mention I get free tickets? Well I do.

I plan on taking Lucia tommorrow night. Then my audition which is at 11:30 Sunday morning! This is a good weekend so far. If I get the show it'll be even better. Though it's been a while since I've gone on one. I'm rusty as I can be no doubt. Still, it's good for me to be going out again. And either way, I got a new job!

Theatre Audition!

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:55:34 -0700

Not only do I have a job interview at that theatre I mentioned but I also have an audition! Yeah I'm on a theatre roll my friends, a roll let me tell you.

I'll keep you guys updated on how both ventures turn out. Hopefully I'll get both, and the show pays! yeah a theatre job and an acting job that pays? STAMP OF APPROVAL IN RED.

Well while I anguish you can check out a friend of mine's site. Chad Kimball, one of my good friends from highschool is now a Broadway actor. I found out about this a few years back and was very unshocked.

Chad Kimball, best actor I know. Won best actor in every damn highschool musical he played the lead in, which was pretty much all of them and has a great singing voice. We were in alot of theatre classes together too. I'm extremely happy for him.

He now has his own clothing company.Ogear Clothing. Check it out for hip NY threads.

Stay tuned for interview and audition updates!

Theatre Job Interview

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:47:16 -0700

Yes! I have an interview at one of the big 7! That is, one of the seven major theatres here in Seattle. It's not acting but it does rock! I happen to love this theatre too.

It is only an interview but I'll let my readers know how it turns out, cause I know you come here to hear about my job interviews!

Plutonium

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:26:08 -0700

1.21 Gigawatts has a new bookmark and addy box icon. It's cool! It's Plutonium!

Omir the Storyteller

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:22:47 -0700

A great Seablog find! Stories, romance, swordfights! Ok not so much the last two.

Check it g check it g check it, swing it g swing it g swing it!

[Omir the Storyteller]

Seablogs

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:30:00 -0700

These interwebs sure have some great things in them don't they gang? Like today, I was surfing through Tom Green's blog as I like to do and I watched some Vlogs. Those are cool. Vlogs.

So I made a search for vlogs, then local vlogs. Haven't found any of those yet, however I did find Seablogs, a Seattle weblog portal. I have spent the last 20 minutes reading local blogs and I have to say it is a good time.

I wanted to start something like this a few months ago, when I was far less blog savvy! Seablog has probably been around since like 1979! If not, it still likely came before my idea and on finding it I am quite the enthusiastic supporter of it. Check it out.

If your visiting from Seablogs leave a comment! You could leave a comment about how stylish or horribly damn hideous and disgusting looking the sci-fi museum looks! Except that cool thing coming out of it. Like an alien. That thing is cool.

Anyway, check out the blog, where I'm not talking like Tom Green.

[Seablog]

Nintendo A Capella

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:08:47 -0700

Now that Google Video is active it's got a growing number of awesome videos. And as pointed out by Boing Boing a search for Highschool will bring up some of the best stuff.

As a fan of the 80s and especially of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, I have to point my readers here for a must see perfomance by anyone who loves the old NES games. An a capella performance of some of our favorite games.

[Nintendo A Capella]

The Goonies and Astoria

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 04:35:00 -0700

I miss Astoria, the small fishing town in which the fictional Goondocks from the 80s classic Goonies was filmed. I was down there for the 20th Anniversary Celebration in June and had such a great time.

I watched the Goonies Vacation tonight and it REALLY made me miss that town. Check it out and see why. Especially if you're a fan of the Goonies, or gorgeous port towns.

If Pirates Ruled

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:35:00 -0700

If Pirates Ruled the World.

Worth1000 photoshopping contest where the theme is If Pirates Ruled. Awesome pirating ensues.

via Boing Boing

Puyallup Fair Review

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:21:04 -0700

As predicted the Puyallup Fair was awesome. We unexpectadly got free tickets from Lucia's boss and arrived at the fair about 4:00pm.

First thing was to get food. I ate at a place called The Mad Greek where I had a Polish Sausage, pepsi and a big ass basket of fries which they gave me for free. Once food was out of the way we hit the animal exhibits and had a great time looking at farm animals of all kinds.

We stopped in on the new Toonzville exhibit where I forced Lucia to watch the Let's Pretend Circus show. Which is a circus where they take kids from the audience, give them costumes to wear and give them simple directions like "When she points at you all you have to do is growl!".

The show was fun and had alot of audience participation (inlcuding oohing and ahhing clapping in a circle ("rounds of applause") and such. The kids were fun to watch and reminded me of the Make-A-Circus I was in as a kid.

After that we went through more animal exhibits then through the shops and hobby halls and into the crafts. It was a hell of alot of fun and I ended up getting a new baseball cap with pirate Jack Rackham's flag on the front. On the reverse it says Surrender the Booty. A typical pirate saying on just about every piece of pirate clothing out there. I love this hat!

After alot more walking and more exploring we ended up going home about 9:00pm. I had a great time as usual. I'll miss it until next year.

Talk Like A Pirate Day

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:20:00 -0700

Ahoy lubber! Today be th' official day o' talkin' like a pirate. If'n yer wonderin' what in Davy Jones soggy locker I'm talkin' 'bout ye should check out the 'ficcial website o' National Talk Like A Pirate Day.

While yer at it ye may want to check out th' new book "Pirattitude" by the sea dogs that came up with this holiest o' holidays.

Puyallup Fair

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:25:00 -0700

The Puyallup Fair started last week and it is the one big event of the year I can not miss. If you live in Washington and have never been there, it is time.

The fair is less crowded then hippy laden Bumbershoot and more fun too. Past concerts have featured artists like Jewel, Huey Lewis and the News and Bill Cosby.

This year Kelly Clarkson was slated to play but the first two weeks of her tour have been cancelled due to bronchitis and a severe lung infection. However Hillary Duff is playing the 25th of September if you love the pop.

Other artists this year include ZZ Top, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Patti Labelle, Hoobastank, some known country singers, Comedian Paul Rodriguez and a host of others.

The Fair also features tons of animals and animal exhibits, rodeos, fair exhibits full sized rides including roller coasters and ferris wheels and free entertainment throughout the grounds.

I'll blog the event after we go on Tuesday. Love the Puyallup!

[The Puyallup Fair]

Rub A Dub Doggie

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:25:00 -0700

Rub A Dub Doggies are one of my most fondly remembered toys of the 80s. This was a waterproof plastic dog with terry cloth ears and a little horizontal lever at the back of the collar. The lever could be switched right and left quickly making the dogs (usually sudsy) ears splash all over the place like a real dog.

Kids might not like them today because: Their value as a toy came mostly from Mr Bubble bubble baths, which are mostly a forgotten past time.

Kids today might like it because: The universal appeal of dogs is still in tact and a young child might enjoy this cute plastic pup. Especially if it's flapping soap bubbles all over the bathroom.

My Pet Monster

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:00:03 -0700

Finally! The newest Toys Of Our Lives! This week is all about My Pet Monster!

Not only was this blue monster an awesome plush toy with orange break away handcuffs, it also had its own short lived cartoon on ABC in 1987.

When this guy first came out every kid on my block wanted one. The commercial was awesome too. I vaguely remember a kid hiding behind a couch and springing this monster on his sister and saying "GRRRRRR!". Of course she jumps out of her skin. 80s commercials were wonderfully non pc.

Kids today might not like them because: They don't have any contemporary tie ins with a cartoon and they can't compete with Robosapien.

Kids today might like them because: Though they don't offer high tech wizardry they do have break away handcuffs and can make any kid feel like they've got a scary, strong monster pet all their own.

[My Pet Monster on Wikipedia]

Bugsy's Club Tournament

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:00:00 -0700

Thursday night I entered a Bugsy's Club free roll no limit hold em tournament. Out of the 450 that entered I came in at 131st. Not horrible but I had a few really bad beats. Trip Queens fell against not one, but two hands that split the pot.

I was the short stack for a while until some good double up opportunities presented themselves. After a few of those I busted out the chip leader. He obviously didn't respect my tight play!

I went out with a pair of jacks against Aces but all in all it was a very good tournament.

Netvibes Rocks

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 02:57:51 -0700

Biz Stone's site consistently has awesome posts regarding cool new things by way of blogging and the like. His latest find is Net Vibes. A completely customizable page for feeds, weather, Gmail and web notes.

Click and drag page design, featured feeds and web search (google, yahoo, msn search and wikipedia; standard) including color controls and a nice layout. I am impressed.

[NetVibes]

WAV 80s TV Theme Songs

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:20:00 -0700

Because I was unable to put up the promised Toys of Our Lives (the new ones will be up by Friday night.) I have scoured my 80s Child Website for some of the best 80s TV Theme Songs.

Here you go!

Hopefully these will help make up for the week this blog has been un updated.

Again!?

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:15:32 -0700

I have spent the last week without a computer, I had been hoping to get another Toys of Our Lives or two out but I had no choice.

The wipe was supposed to take 2 days tops and we just got the computer back tonight. So, expect 2 Toys of Our Lives and frequent updates once more.

Appologies

noreply@blogspirit.com (Jeremy) — Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:30:00 -0700

My appologies to anyone who has come back to catch this weeks Toys of Our Lives. I haven't been able to get a solid chunk of time online to put one up.

This weeks Toys of Our Lives will be up by tommorrow, a mere and paltry sum of two miniscule days late.

In the mean time check out my inspiration for Toys of Our Lives, Wil Wheaton's Games of Our Lives column at The Onion AV Club and one of the most awesome 80s themed blogs ever.