Loose Note

Mar. 13th, 2016 03:40 pm
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GetTV was showing the 1960s Jason And The Argonauts just now.  It's weird that when I saw it in theater when I was a kid that I was so awed by the effects.  I still see the genius in it, even though now it's painfully obvious how it was done.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of November 13, 2014

Ancient people knew about Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn because all of those planets are visible to the naked eye. From the second millennium B.C. until the late 20th century, only three additional planets were found: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. (Pluto was later reclassified as a dwarf planet, however.) Then in 1992, astronomers began to locate planets orbiting other stars. On one spectacular day in February of 2014, NASA announced it had identified 715 new planets. I foresee a similar uptick for you in the next seven months, Sagittarius. Your rate of discoveries is about to zoom.

Have we run out of names for gods?

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of August 7, 2014

Lake Superior State University issues a "Unicorn Questing Privilege" to those people who are interested in hunting for unicorns. Are you one of them? I wouldn't be surprised if you felt an urge like that in the coming weeks. Unusual yearnings will be welling up in you. Exotic fantasies may replace your habitual daydreams. Certain possibilities you have considered to be unthinkable or unattainable may begin to seem feasible. Questions you have been too timid to ask could become crucial for you to entertain. (You can get your Unicorn Questing License here.)

I'm already trying to build the perfect beast in the form of the Gundam RedLegger mobile suit.  It doesn't need to be a Unicorn...those are already done.

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of March 13, 2014

In the old fairy tale "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," the poor woodcutter Ali Baba is collecting firewood in the forest when he spies a gang of thieves bragging about their exploits. Observing them from a hiding place, he hears them chant a phrase, "open sesame." This magically unseals the opening to a cave that happens to be full of their stolen treasure. Later, when the thieves have departed, Ali Baba goes to the cave and says "open sesame" himself. The hocus-pocus works. He slips into the cave and steals a bag of gold from the robbers' plunder. This story has resemblances to an adventure you could enjoy sometime soon, Sagittarius. I suspect you may discover your own version of "open sesame." It will give you access to a less literal and more legitimate bounty.

This week promises a magic carpet ride and some shaking for the Sheikh.  Maybe we'll Rock some Casbah as well.

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If Disney went and did a revival now, how much you'd want to bet that they fold it into the Marvel Universe? (Which would have all sorts of awesome possibilities...but also be very bizarre as Gargoyles was in part a reaction to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [which also became Disneyfied through Jim Henson Studios] and Batman The Animated Series.)
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The pilot storyline for Gargoyles. I know the world has completely changed in the time since it was on TV, but gosh darn it!--Revive it somehow! A Pixar CGI feature version would be billions of tons of cool.
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I used to be a bigger Star Wars fan than I am now. I still haven't seen the movies set between Phantom Menace and A New Hope, nor much of Clone Wars, nor any of the Ewoks TV movies, nor have I read any of the novels or side-story comics.

I'm afraid if I tried to ask a question about the setting, a bigger fan would point me to an answer. And I also realize that I don't even want to win this contest, as I don't have a Blu-Ray player, and so can't use the prize! :(
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In Florida (and probably elsewhere in the South), you hear stories about a ghoul called the Sickle Man, who supposedly wanders the wilds and farmlands with a large reaper blade that he uses to chop animals (as well as people who offend him) to little pieces.

If I were Stephen King, I would have written a novel about the Sickle Man, had it made into a big budget horror movie, and cleaned up financially. But I'm not.
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The Weather Witch has successfully performed her incantation; now it's up to YOU. Go outside with a bath or beach towel and wave it at the sky. Tlaloc is looking for you. If he finds you, he will quench your land with his rain. Now is the time to do the rain dances. Tell all your neighbors and friends.
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Get It Before Warner Does! )
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My Favorite Part Of The MAKING OF THRILLER Documentary )

I first saw this in school, in Mass Media class. When the time came to make our own short films, we were told point-blank by our teacher: NO MUSIC VIDEOS!
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To answer the SECOND question: There was a lot of drama in one of the forums I frequent when one of our number was taken in by a false Amber Alert. He raised holy hades; we found on-line evidence to prove that the Amber Alert was bogus; he would have none of it and persisted. Eventually we kicked him out for that and for other rowdy behavior.

Via [personal profile] babilu:

Nov. 2nd, 2008 10:30 pm
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Your result for The Greek Mythology Personality Test...

Orpheus

33% Extroversion, 67% Intuition, 56% Emotiveness, 71% Perceptiveness

You are an artist, an aesthete, a sensitive, and someone who has never really let go of that childlike innocence. To you, all of life has a sense of wonder in it, and the story of Orpheus was written about someone just like you.



When the Argo passed the island of the Sirens, Orpheus played a song more beautiful than the Sirens to prevent the crew from becoming enticed. When his wife died, he ventured into the underworld to charm Hades but, in his naivete, he looked back becoming trapped there.



You can capture your unique world view and relate it to others with the skill of a master storyteller. Your sensitivity and creativity make you a treasure to the human race, but your thin-skinned nature and innocence can cause you a lot of disenchantment and pain. What's doubly unfortunate is that, if you try to lose those traits, you never will, and everyone will be able to tell that you're putting up an artificial shell to prevent yourself from being hurt.



Famous people like you: Hemingway, Shakespeare, Mr. Rogers, Melville, Nick Tosches

Stay clear of: Icarus, Hermes, Atlas

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You can stand me up at the gates of Hell
But I Won't Back Down
--Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

FP
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(A postscript to a previous entry.)

Since I didn't have the 'Net last night...

The opera was about three things at once. On the surface, it was about America in the Roaring Twenties.

Beyond that, it was about Germany in the impending transition between the failing Weimar Republic and Hitler's dictatorship.

Beyond that, it's a transformation into a modern-dress Christian Passion Play. The central character is a forestry laborer, who goes to a wicked city, falls in love with a woman who sells her body, gets disgusted with the place, becomes a prophet and is ultimately undone by a moment of weakness and the apathy of his fellows. (I suppose it was intended that the city dies along with him, but it wasn't "shown" as such in the production done on Great Performances.)
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Pereginus expectavi pedes meos in cymbalis
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Planet FrustratedPilot

'Over the years I have noticed that FrustratedPilot smells rather unpleasant for a supposed God. It is rather horrific.' (Redmond Brandon)

Religion In FrustratedPilot's World

  • FrustratedPilotity 30%
    (370,261,168 believers)
  • Bibberyity 1%
    (12,342,038 believers)
  • Cenoteity 17%
    (209,814,662 believers)
  • Cliquyism 13%
    (160,446,506 believers)
  • Fineist 2%
    (24,684,077 believers)
  • Fishableism 6%
    (74,052,233 believers)
  • Kernesity 7%
    (86,394,272 believers)
  • Outdodgeism 9%
    (111,078,350 believers)
  • Prelunchism 15%
    (185,130,584 believers)

Population : 1,234,203,896
World Ends : 3rd Jun 2013
Nuclear Capable : Hong Kong S.A.R., Indonesia, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Swaziland
Nuked Countries : Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Indonesia, Swaziland

FrustratedPilot's Wrath!!

  • On 25th Feb 2007 God had finally had enough of Australia and made everything within its borders disappear mysteriously over-night.

  • God - upset by the failure of His attempt to introduce 'FrustratedPilot Cola' into the soft drinks market, destroyed over 2,000,000 cans of competitors Cola world-wide in an attempt to level the playing field.

The Anti-FrustratedPilot

The Anti-FrustratedPilot was Gass Meehan a 28-year-old man from Belarus.

The Saviour

'I know he looks a little strange but give Him a chance. For I tell thee, if you place your face in my son Holden Ivers you will receive 7 years worth of penny farthings!

This is the End

And the sun fell of the sky at FrustratedPilot's command for absolutely no other reason than they could no longer be bothered ruling such an unpleasant world.

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