Carnival Week 2: Electric Boogaloo {Week 10}

Hello there. Short post (for once, eh?). Well, as short as I make 'em. I had a mess of a week that was busy with the same task. I was driven to think that something would come from it. But now that it's done I feel like all the manic energy was just anxiety pushed to it's limits. Don't cry that it's over, smile that you won't have to do that shit again. Hopefully. Otherwise, some town events: i.e. the carnival that is losing it's swagger with every passing year, sadly. In the late nights I've been playing the story of GTA V and having too much of a good time. Anyway, all that and more in the post.

Week 10.

Had a passable time during the start of the week. I got a response from the lady I was in contact with about the possible illustration work and the publisher apparently wanted to see if I had a website portfolio which I don't. You know what that means... I was busy Monday through Thursday putting something together. It honestly didn't turn out great but I didn't use Wix or some shit so I will consider it a win. It's borderline the exact same thing as my PDF portfolio so now I'm worried that they just didn't like my work. Wouldn't be the first time.

In the evening time I was still playing GTA V, having way, way, way too much fun. Gonna probably actually do a follow-up GOTM post on the media blog at this rate. Also I've made my daily song logs into a playlist so if you want a mixtape in no specific genre, created neither with rhyme or reason, please check out my 2026 365 mix.

I was in such a haze trying to get the web portfolio done during the week nothing much else happened until Friday when it was finally Carnival Day in our town. The theme this year was Latin American culture, queue a bunch of small white French children in ponchos and sombreros. The theme's have been implemented looser and looser by the year. Very little had actually to do with Latin America aside from the marching band wearing white sweaters with the Brazilian flag, the aforementioned sombreros and ponchos, and a very horrifying papier mache guy with a big mustache. They burned the guy, but that's a normal thing because it's just a part of the carnival (they burnt Shrek last year). I feel like a lot of countries burn some shit in the Spring, just people stuff. I didn't get why he had fake money stuck to him though. Is it something about wishing for fortune? Tom said that's not a thing in France so I was even more confused.

Also, realized that I did not understand the night photo settings on my camera at all and that all the pictures turned out so, so bad. 

Sort of Carnaval de Rio?

On Saturday I was working more on my Nanoreno visual novel. It's been going pretty alright, I've got some character sketches down that made me think I was alright at drawing. Ah, the folly of a single good moment.

On Sunday we took the cats out to a friend's huge patio/balcony where we also made smores. We had this one-time use cardboard 'grill' (using the term grill very generously here) that you supposedly could light with a lighter. False. We sat there warming these damn compressed coals for 15 minutes like a bunch of junkies with nothing to show for it. Obviously my mum got the blowtorch out and that did the trick. Modern problems, modern solutions.

Just trash.

Honestly, the week was so messy and boring I have very little to say. Yes, not even some kind of crazed and half-formed tangent. This blog is truly falling apart. 

The end.

This Week I'm Excited For...

Probably to finally start the sprite work for Nanoreno. I've been meaning to finalize the look of the style I'm gonna try for the VN but we'll see how that pans out.

Song Of The Week... 

While I was on my janitorial duties I played some The Replacements back to back. I used to listen to them a lot more, they seriously rock. And how insane is it that Androgynous was written in 1984? The line 'Kewpie dolls and urine stalls will be laughed at the way you're laughed at now' always brings me to near tears. It's just a very raw and beautiful thing. And it's yet to happen, which is morbid. In someone's lifetime though. However, my song of the week and my fave from the album is Unsatisfied. I don't think there's many moments that are as cathartic and painful as the way Paul Westerberg drags out 'satisfied' in the chorus.