nerds do it for free

I have no money. I have no job. I’m in debt above my head but I am still compelled to buy all sorts of comics, collectibles and games. I don’t want to call it a drawback because of the amount of joy these noncarbon trinkets bestow, and maybe that is a drawback. How could a Kevin Smith inaction figure of him working at a store bring me happiness? I don’t know but I think that it might. I didn’t buy it yet but I have visited Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash online site numerous times in the past weeks to buy some other uber fan boy stuff and these Kevin Smith figures are pretty cool too, especially the one that is on sale for like 3 bucks that depicts him working at the now defunct J&SBSS once in California. And let me tell you something, if shipping wasn’t 9 bucks, I would have bought it by now. But really, will this stupid figure help me out in anyway? Maybe it’s because I just like Smith’s movies so much and I’ve been watching them in recent months. Before watching Zack & Miri 2 months ago I hadn’t watched a Smith movie since Clerks II in theatres. I had walked out the movie unimpressed, un enthused and in the blink of an eye I had forgotten Smiths movies, the universe and the characters that spawned. I never shunned him though, I would always talk up any of the films that I really enjoyed but I would always find myself just passing over his movies whenever I was thinking of something to watch, when they were once a staple of my viewing library and were like soundtracks to my life constantly in the background. Over saturation. When one cannot control oneself and take the necessary detox every now and again these pleasures become routine and lose their meaning. Depending on what we’re talking about here you will either just grow bored and move on or possibly continue down a path of overabundance, but we’ll stick with the former. I don’t really know where this is going other than I spend way too much money on shit I don’t need and a lot of it has to do with watching the "classic" movies again after such a long break, watching Clerks II again and really loving it , enjoying the hell out of  Z&M and all of the "Evening With"’s, and just being pissed off about how much shipping rates are.

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I know.

I am starting today by writing this entry even though I won’t post it for hours still. Not my own idea but I don’t have an acceptable signal anywhere else in this city. I could find one, but that just conjurs up a whole list of potentially unwanted outcomes. I usually, and by usually I mean most of the time given the few times that I have, post or at least compose a post when at work or after work on othe train. At lesat that had been my most recent idea. In the morning it’s just more difficult to write, it’s easier to play a video game on the train and forget that I am actually going to work (in this world). A bit of detachment never harmed anybody. I just hate thinking about my job so I try not to. Do you ever take a good look around you and wonder "how the fuck did I end up here?" That’s part of my daily routine. I’ve been going to school for years, my coligate carrer surpassed the normal 4 year relm and my post-graduate studies are coming to a close. I’ve lived and breathed computer science and programming for the last 10 years of my life (with the exception of the brief period I went English major out of no where) and I’m doing nothing that has to do with coding. A glorified, not even glorified just a secretary. And not even a good one at that. But I’m sorry to say that when people blame me for shit I either didn’t do or they start screaming about approvals when the person screaming is the one who I got to approve it…this might not make too much sense but I what I am trying to convery in many many more words is that I don’t appricated being treated like shit and I am fucking sick of it. I just really hope someone tries to start something with me today. I could really use the money but I am looking for an excuse to quit. At least it’s only a temporary contract, but this has been one of the worst job experiences of my life. I felt like I had forgotten everything about coding and what I actually wanted to do with my life by working in this soul sucking shit hole of a bank. Here are some tips I’d like to express to you that I have either been told or picked up by working:

1) NEVER work for a bank or any financial company unless you want to be cast into an envrionment where no one will claim responsibilty for any actions they have taken, it takes you days to complete tasks that you would otherwise finish in seconds because you have to ask people a billion and a half questions before doing the most minuet thing, and everyone is only out for themselves no matter what they actually tell you.

2) Save every e-mail you send and that is sent to you so you can shove it in someone’s face when they say "I never said that" or "Why did this happen." No matter how much you trust someone or think that they wouldn’t be the one to do that, in the end it’s their ass they’re more interested in saving.

3) If they’re a manager they’re a fucking moron and they are the reason that the company is doing poorly. If, for some reason, the company is propering, that is because the workers were able to do their jobs and the managers shut the fuck up and left the people who actually know how to do work alone.

4) There is always some sort of drama that hinders you from completing you work in a timely fashion, but this is because all of the managers are fucking morons.

5) The more people in the company, the more red tape there is before anything can get done.

6) Make sure you give out your blog address to people at work (espically your managers!) so they can see what you really think.

7) I can’t stress this enough: Your manager, well all managers are, or will be, complete fucking assholes. What I mean by it now is that you can’t take it personally when they screw you over, because no matter who it was in your position they would be getting screwed over. It’s not you it’s them and how they work. They need to keep their jobs more than you, at least how they see it. They make more than you so of course when cuts come it is much easier to cut one of them than 5 of you, and that’s why they are constantly trying to pass off blame and throw you under a bus.

It’s just the way of the man.

Well my train is pulling into GCT now, and I will join in with my train comrads here in our zombie walk from our train to another train! Or for the few of us willing to venture into the cold, a zombie walk all the way to work. That’s what I’ll be doing. Look for me on Park somewhere between 42 and 24th walking to work.

I’ll be there every day start at around 8:30.

Oh and I Kill Giants issue 7 comes out today.  So that’s something to write home about!

Don’t let the man get you down,

Tigs

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Well I am currently on my first day off from work! Woo! How have I spent the day so far? In my pajamas, that’s right. Not only do I wear pajamas, but I am still in them. I have showered though. Which sadly means that I showered only to get back into my pajamas. Anyway I bought a PS3 on e-bay the other day and I have been really excited about it. I didn’t expect it to come until after the holidays but it came in the mail today. I couldn’t believe it! Then I opened the box up and saw pieces of the system broken off and floating around in the box. The top of the massive black box won’t even stay on, the bottom part is falling off, some cosmetic bumper thing broke off, the hard drive cap won’t fit in place. Well that sucks. But all is forgiven upon playing. Too bad the system is DOA. Green light, yellow light, red light, red light, red light, red light, red light, red light. Sometimes: green light, yellow light, green li-, red light, red light, red light, red light. Furiously I e-mailed the ebay patron and I am awaiting a response. I kind of expected it to be dead, the deal was too good for me to get. But the seller is in Jersey, about 2 hours away from me, which is doable, but highly unlikely. Maybe if they’re open tomorrow I’ll get up extra early and see if I can bring it back. Or I can always just go to the UPS store, but that seems a little too easy, not a plan that I am comfortable undertaking if I can’t screw it up immensely somehow in the middle of the night screaming at the top of my lungs into the windows of an unknowing stranger as the cold wind breezes past carrying along with it a few lawn ornaments of Rudolph and his pals making plans to carry along all the hopes/deams/wishes of the people who believe in them. What?

Anyway, I hope that someone responds back to me soon. I just want to play Persona 4, which isn’t even a PS3 game, but whatever. A working item would still be preferable to a brick.

Ok….so I haven’t posted and I’m SORRY. I know I’ve said this before, so what right do you have to trust me now? None. I wouldn’t trust me either. When I tell you I’ll come back and I’ll keep up the posting. That nothing else in the world matters except this. My life has been meaningless until right now when I’ve realised what is truly important in life and now I am going to act upon it and write every day. I wouldn’t believe it and I don’t believe it. My excuse? I’ve been super busy. My last posts are pretty much from the same week that I got a job, so that’s where I’ve been. I could have posted on the weekends and things like that, but I haven’t, more reason to just not believe me. But let’s try this. By "let’s" I mean "I’ll" because I have already lost every possible reader I have by dissapering so often without notice. Anyway "let’s" have me start writing every day again. On the train, while at work, on the way home from work, just before bed. Whatvere it takes, 1 min, 90 min, 1440 min, however long it takes. I think my sentances and thoughs are beinging to become jumbled. That is one problem with trying to write these posts early in the morning: I have no idea what to say. Which brings me to the fundamental flaw of blogging for someone like me: I don’t think so I rarely have anythign to say. Or maybe I do have things to say but I just don’t think anyone wants to hear it. And why should that matter? No one reads this anyway so I should just write to myself. And I know that writing throughout the day in locations where I am not able to access the internet will mean that I can only publish at the end of the day and not at the same time as I am writing it, but that shouldn’t stop me. There are a lot of tiny obsticals that stand in my way that I decide to turn into chimeras because I’m lazy . Why go down the path if I have an excuse not to? I spend a lot more time looking for excuses not to do things where if I was to just act I think I would have just as much time on my hands to do ABSOLUTLY NOTHING! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?? Lazy, I know, I already stated that.

So here I sit on the 7:54 train to Grand Central surrounded by people who don’t notice me and who never would except that I am that annoying kid who stands out in the crowd because he looks funny wearing his big red coat and hat sitting with a black mac book infront of him pretentiously typing away on the near mute keyboard not pay attention to any one of the numerous patrons standing up because they do not board the train as early as myself. Even the people sitting down hate me and I am convinced of this because it is difficult to get by me with my elbow jetting out into the isle because I just have to choose the only row on the train that has only one seat, smaller than all of the other seats, so that I can just look down pretentiously at either my mac book or my DS as I ride the train into the city into the world that I didn’t think I was going to have to emerse myself into just yet. I though I could hang on to my graduate studies for longer and continue to avoid the inevitable until I finally discovered some way that I could cheat the system and continue to waste my life of inactiviy profitably and secretly.

Things don’t happen the way you hope them too, which I could have told you from the age of 7 when I was told that a lazer blaster didn’t exist, but we move on, realise that we didn’t really need it anyway, and look for another lazer blaster to reach for.

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Adam here. I’ve been working on some logos for a lot of different things related to Tigs and his many web sites. These are some. I’d like to know if they suck or could be used.

YES! That’s right! The Johnny Tigs Sings Johnny Tigs! Live From the Bedroom EP is here, long winded and free! Go over the the downloads section and be the first on your block to down load the EP! Come on! Please!?

I’d also like to thank everyone who was here today to watch the making of the EP. So:

Adam, Colm, Cyndi, Evelyn, Kat, Mallorie, Sarah, Steph, Yates! THANKS!

Mike and Pete thanks for coming on later.

To the people who I don’t know that watched (or that I do know but didn’t say), thanks for watching. I think there were one or two people during the day that just popped in for a few. It was nice to have people watching. Thanks to everyone again for making the day awesome! We’ll be doing this again soon.

Yes, you heard it here first. This week I am going to record and release the aptly titled Johnny Tigs Sings Johnny Tigs EP. I think Thursday around 11am I will start to record the EP (named by Tom Censani last night at the MMG show…I think…maybe it was Mike who named it…) and not only will I record it and put it up for download right away, but I will do a live streaming web cast of me recording and mixing the whole EP.

TAKE THAT ADAM

So check out the bedroom. That’s actually not a computer drawn image but an actual photo taken from the old timey key hole into my bedroom while I practice my dinosaur morphing abilities with my jujitsu master cousin Philip.

Ok so Adam made the image.

Pretty sweet, huh?

An image AND an EP on the site before me…this fucker is going to have to pay.

PAY BIG.

http://www.threadless.com/submission/174372/Lightning_Crabs_Attack/

VOTE 5 everyone!!! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!

So if you head on over to the downloads section you will notice a whole boat load of Lightning Crabs mp3s that weren’t there before. We’ve had them, I’ve just been lazy. Isn’t that always the case? Anyway, enjoy the downloads, hopefully all the links work, I think I typed them in correctly. The actual file names are kind of insane at times. That’s my fault, I go kind of nuts mixing and cutting the tracks (not that they sound mixed or cut) and my outlet is naming mp3’s random things.
Another thing, I know Adam got an EP up before I did, and it pisses me off too! So I’m working on some songs now and I’ll should have something up soon. That’ll show that jerk.

Enjoy the new mp3s non-existant readers and stay tuned for more.