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I'm trying to learn how to make ice sculptures... and I found this book on amazon about it. Well, the review sounds good anyways.

Ice Sculpting the Modern Way

FIVE STARS. Just the book I needed!, December 30, 2004

Reviewer: Bud Gott (New Castle, DE USA) - See all my reviews
I'm not one to brag, but sculpting things out of wood always came very naturally to me. I recently sculpted a wooden statue of Pat Sajak that would knock your socks off. It's so life-like that it's almost scary.

However, with wood comes a lot of splinters. I've got enough problems in my life already without that kind of extra hardship added. That's why I chose to give up wood sculpting and take up ice sculpting instead.

This here book has shown me that I can do it! In virtually no time at all, I've taken what I've learned from this book and created several great ice sculptures. I've had countless hours of fun doing it!

I'm not a total expert yet, but I'm getting there. In fact, I'm making a new ice sculpture right now that I'm bringing to a convention this weekend. It's a convention for Saved By The Bell fans (we call ourselves "saved.") My ice sculpture is going to be of Dustin Diamond, who played Screech on the show.

If it weren't for this book, I'd never have learned what I needed to know about ice sculpting! Now I can make ice sculptings of all my heroes. After Dustin Diamond, I'm going to try my hand at an ice sculpture of actor Gary Coleman. I won't need too much ice. (Ha ha)

I hope everyone enjoys this book as much as I did. Happy sculpting to you all!



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"One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am --- a relunctant enthusiast . . . a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half for yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breath deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will out live the bastards."

Taken from The Earth Speaks by Edward Abby

Fuck being negative all the time. I hear jaded is always in style, and really that's too bad, along with oscar the grouch green right now, which I do like.

Also fuck historicism, The music and art from other times was not better. You are seeing the greatest hits of that time period; in the long view they will be as significant as the best things of this time period. Some changes last longer than others.

I think its much harder to put things out into the world and find solutions. Are you creating or critiquing? This applies to all things that shape culture, I suppose, music, art, film, politics. Jimmy Carter was fucking cool, by the way; it does relate, read more about him.

Also, I think Hornby hits on this in the book/later a movie, High Fidelity. The part where he goes from being a music snob obsessed with imposing his taste, which is good, on the rest of the world to actually producing records.

I don't really feel like talking about this intelligently right now so I'll just put in random quotes that I like. Hornby also wrote About a Boy, which also got made into a movie. See them multiple times, if you haven't yet. I feel like Hornby really understands people, the characters really have deep motivations. I've read the books also and I would recommend the movies if you're like me, I'm not dumb and I like to read, but they're very british culture based, and its easier for me to 'get it' when its translated to more of an am. culture reference in the movie versions. I relate to chicago much better than north london. well, they're some of my favorite films... and (insert cheesy transition)

...It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

I own this store called Championship Vinyl. Its located in a neighbourhood that attracts the bare minimum of window-shoppers. I get by because of the people who make a special effort to shop here. Mostly young men who spend their time looking for deleted Smiths singles and original (not rereleased, underlined!) Frank Zappa albums.
Fetish properties... are not unlike porn. I'd feel guilty taking their money, if I wasn't... well, kinda one of 'em...

Rob: Should I bolt every time I get that feeling in my gut when I meet someone new? Well, I've been listening to my guts since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

Rob: This tape I'm making for Laura.... has music she likes. Things that make her happy. And for the first time, I think I'm starting to see how that's done.

more songs with commentary; heroin - the velvet underground. I'll get there in a bit,

I went to a talk given by one of the "rockstar designers" of this decade I suppose, Karim Rashid, I really think he's more of an artist, later I got drunk with him, and he tried to take a female friend of mine back to the hotel with him - dirty bastard. that's another story though.

He was asked something to the effect of, what could design do to combat the monoculture we're creating, with suburbs and mcdonalds at every off ramp what will the world become? He really surprised me, his attitude was basically that all change is good.

They make movies about characters having these existential crisis, and you know I always thought they were kind of funny. kind of funny until you have one of these yourself, then it will probably kick your brain around for a good four or five hours before it gets tired, and runs off to find somebody else to play soccer with. Seriously,

ALL CHANGE IS GOOD?

THAT, is a scary though. What does that lead to? if all change is good then things will happen, will come and go, but honestly none of it really matters. It is impossible for things to stay the same, so really does it matter if you do nothing? or if you stand for nothing, have no principles other than immediate comfort?

Is this true? It could be, I have two examples that really bother me, war and drugs. War creates huge changes, some art/design movements like futurism have really embraced it. What is war? WAR = INTENSE CULTURAL COMPETITION. Look what comes of it, dramatic increases in science and technology. You can insert whatever technology example you'd like here, a man on the moon, etc. there are hundreds of them. But in the end it boils down to need, competition fuels a great need and great needs produce amazing solutions.

Also, look at drugs, how many songs are about drugs? how many creative people have been involved with drugs? Drugs create a powerful need for something, a need that really shakes people to their core, sends them on a wild ride, forces them to find an outlet for the things they are experiencing.

Well don't know how to deal with those two, but when war is good that's really too shitty a world for me, I'll have to disagree; change is sometimes bad, and that nostalgia is a necessity, unless you want to get into an endless existential soccer match.

So nostalgia and the fact that change can be bad, move on the the next round of my little futbol tournament here. next opponent, suburbia. There has to be a way for people to live in affordable housing, eat affordable, quality food, while still retaining a unique regional culture.

Is this important to anyone else yet? Maybe it's my background, but suburbs and the same five godamn gas stations and resteraunts at every exit bothers the shit out of me. Whoever figures out a solution to that one, will be an important figure for this period of our culture.

oh and by the way, fuck you kansas. 104 out of 105 counties approved the ammendment banning gay marriage. The lone hold-out, Douglas, was I'm proud to say. But I voted and I feel like it counted, rock on democracy.

it's springtime, and tradition has it that I try something dumb around this time of year. I'm looking for suggestions.

freshman year - I tried to walk for 24 hours, I took a picture every hour of just whatever seemed most interesting at that randomly determined spot. It turned out pretty cool.

sophomore year - I tried to run 100 miles in 24 hrs with no prior training. I made it 30 miles, pretty good I think, that's a marathon plus four.

junior year - we'll see, I think you can get in the Guiness book for carrying a 10 lb brick in your hand 28 miles, somebody did it for 27, that seems pretty feasible when you're really not into training like me.

I'm pretty sure that, at most, two people read this so if there are more your input is welcome.

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Infamous Date Rape - Tribe Called Quest,
hot biblical references if I do say so myself. Jericho was this city God said the Israelites had to march around for a week or so blowing trumpets and things and then the walls fell down. They rushed in and killed all the Jerichonians. Meshach, Shadrach and Abendego were these three Israelites in captivity. They refused to bow to a giant statue of the king, so he threw them in a fiery furnace. They didn't die an angel saved them or something, I don't remember exactly.

Uh huh, you know science, you get buckwild
Runnin mad games as if your name was Scott Skiles
Or better yet Magic or even Karl Malone
Regardless who it is, your aim is to bone
If she tries to front, then you start to dis her
If she's with the program, that's when you start to kiss her
Might as well get to the point, no time to waste
Might as well break the ice, then set the pace
You start to talk nasty, now she's ready to bone
Step out of the shower, throw on cologne
All of a sudden, her sugarwalls tumble down like Jericho
She's hotter than Meshach, Shadrach and Abendego
You listen to After 7, break fool after 10
Do your thing at 12 o'clock and when you go again
There goes round 1, ding, there goes round two
Now tell me what the (fuck) are you supposed to do
What do you know, when the meow is completed
Girly girl cried rape, yo, I didn't really need it