Moving out soon

I might be moving out of WordPress.com to a local installation pretty… soon-ish? Basically, I’ve just purchased a friggin’ 20 GB webspace (domain transfer still in progress though), and I need to fill ‘er up. Any idea what I should abuse the vast space for other than: 1) obligatory professional-ish portfolio, 2) dumping/recycling ground of my illustrations/drecks (that is, the initial incarnation of coffee-cat), and 3) occasional filesharing? I was thinking of yet another crappy online magazine, something like college zine, where you can dump anything: reviews, articles, rants, poems, short stories, SMSes, chat history, doodles you made during lectures, photos, illustrations, collage, a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g (though we’ll at least pretend that there’s a uniform thematic issue running in each edition where of course connections can be as farfetched as you like). It can be nonsensical, sensical, pompous, ignominous, wanky, cranky, I don’t care. And of course it will be little read.

… Give me ideas, kids.

Anyway, linkages.

Offscreen is featuring an article on The Saddest Music in the World and an interview with Guy Maddin. (If you haven’t seen this, please do.)

Boston Globe interviewed the two students who made Brokeback to the Future. (Ditto.)

Because, ahem, “everybody loves conspiracy”: Witness a pre-publicity scandal at its grandest scale, and what do you know, just in time for the movie! (Hint: Random House.) That’s a bit of a blip though, I kinda expected a bigger hoo-ha.

LibraryThing, an “online service to help people catalog their books easily. Because everyone catalogs together, you can also use LibraryThing to find people with similar libraries, get suggestions from people with your tastes and so forth.”(Free users are limited to 200 books though.)

Lastly, a stupid question: Is Spike Lee (and his works) an acknowledged influence to Cowboy Bebop? Sure has some similar characteristics (and, d-uh, there’s the name)…

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March 5, 2006 at 1:56 am

Serge Norguard

wow 20gb of webspace… that is something. im here with 2gb and i find it a lot.

March 5, 2006 at 9:57 pm

da vinci code: maybe later they’ll come up with another bigger controversy-thing.

20gb is a huge space, really *__* oh just count me in whenever you plan on doing, I could provide photos and doodles, yes I can. :P

the saddest music in the world: elu punya divhs yak? sayah jadi tambah penasaran.

March 6, 2006 at 3:13 am

tyas

join me in multiply dong kat.
ah, soal dan brown itu, udah dari dulu pun saya tahu dia ngambil abis-abisan dari buku leigh dan baigent. sekali baca juga langsung sadar anagram nama si leigh teabing. belum baca bukunya, tapi emang perdebatan buku the holy blood and the holy grail emang udah lama gemanya di kalangan penggemar arthurian. tapi gimana ya? dalam pandangan gue, mengubah ide non fiksi menjadi fiksi sebenarnya sah-sah aja. kalo gue jadi leigh dan baigent justru gue senang karena hasil penelitian gue jadi dikenal luas. tapi ndak tahu juga ya
links ke artikel2 itu, gue taruh di Multiply ya.

March 6, 2006 at 8:12 pm

kat

you:
It will slowly spread, one step at a time.

Tapi gue skrg ilang lagi napsunyah. (Li’l miss inconsistency.) Akh datanglah ide! Mau diapain yaa ini, 20 GB dan 1 TB bandwith… (If you want a webspace, ask and ye shall receive.)

Saddest Music in the World: Now I’ve raised an expectation. Eh nother one out of my VHSes I’d recommend… Battle of Algiers, see if you can find it, that one is more canon.

tyas:
Nah, I never really like networked sites a la Multiply. One of the reasons why I left LJ.
Anyway, to comment on your respective Multiply post (since I can’t comment there without registering):

mengapa baru sekarang mereka protes

Er, that’s the point of my post, I suspect it’s called sales-driving conspiracy. Hint: Random House. RH CEOs counting their fat bills, puffing fat cigars while they are watching us poor, impressionable readers boost their revenues tenfold overnight *. Nicely timed for the upcoming hankfest movie too. And I’m sure, whether they win or lose, deep down Leigh & Baigent are two very happy, flattered men. Not to mention now showered and pomaded in newly-raked piles of cash. Ditto Dan Brown and Random House.

* Remind me to sue the Independent (and countless other newspapers and blogs) for plagiarising my idea. Those bastards.

March 10, 2006 at 1:36 am

raised an expectation: akh, ndak apa-apa, sapa suruh masang link ke artikelnya. Trus karna seems like I have zero chance on finding that Battle of Algiers, nanti sajah kalaw kesitu numpang nonton.

webspace sih kalaw dikasih dengan sukarela saya mau dan akan menerima dengan sukahati, cuma dipake buat apanya itu loh…

Baca: malu-malu mau (ih.)

March 10, 2006 at 11:56 pm

hihi, ya sudah tak apa-apa. kat di manapun pasti akan kuikuti *stalker mode*

ah kalo gitu cita-cita saya sekarang: menulis buku berpengaruh yang lantas dijadikan acuan banyak orang, terus mereka saya tuntut satu per satu. kyaaaaa.

March 21, 2006 at 8:35 pm

Sardius