Wow. I need a similar setup. 

albotas:

A Little Bit On The Epic Gaming Room Side: This perfect gamer cave belongs to 16bitghost. Dude basically owns every console which makes his life pretty much 100% more fulfilling than yours.

Here’s a 12-minute tour of the pad:

(via Geekologie)

(Source: chelsearodriguez)

Here is an untitled poem (doodle provided) I wrote beneath the strong rays of Texas sun. The scanned image is of the original draft in my new journal. Below is a more polished version. You’ll find that they are not identical in script. Some changes have been made, mostly due to heightened descriptive quality or rhythm/flow. Do enjoy, and please feel free to give me your thoughts on the piece. I openly welcome crit of any kind. Just be nice, of course. :)

Leaves, fueled by flicker,

by eve of entity 

Though cast you, by name

Nominal, fair, and with tenure

Strife intended, and with accolades

to rest beyond soiled sop

Lonely travelers, do not rest 

upon shoulders that shake

Paths abducted and bent,

broadened per burdened noble gain,

do not harness the pedagogy of flight

to tamper with sights unseen

I see water and trees,

and lovely children smiling at ponds 

with ducks and things

Skies blue, soft pillows high

Wooden dreams in a jar made of steam

that—-collect as I may

But be it true 

that you, with my heart,

possess the altar of madness 

bestowed and ensued 

Woah.

(Source: Spotify)

SXSW 2012

Installment #1, Week #1

In preparation for this year’s upcoming SXSW, I’ve gathered a list of bands I would really like to check out and that I thought I should share with you! Because there are going to be so many performing, I think it’s pretty safe to say that this will be installment #1 of what is to become a weekly addition/update and guide as the event nears. I hope you will enjoy it just as much as I have putting it together!

Also, the “*” indicator marks the bands I feel I especially think groovy.

THE LIST:

16Bit
120 Days
Abby
Acollective
Agnes Mercedes
Agridoce
Airbird
AM and Shawn Lee
Anenon
Anoraak
Automelodi*
B.Bravo & The Starship Connection
Balaclavas*
Balkan Beat Box
Bare Wires
Bam Bam
BeatauCue
Ben von Wildenhaus*
Bestial Mouths
Zechs Marquise*
Za!
Zorch
Yelle*
Yacht
Yip Deceiver
Xray Eyeballs*
Wavves*
White Ninja*
Maus Haus*
Mujuice*

Me and you.

(Source: lovequotesrus)

Book of the Day

“IQ84” is the latest release by famed Japanese author Haruki Murakami, winner of the Franz Kafka Prize in 2006. The novel has gained tremendous reviews, many of which indicate that the work is one of the best yet. The book ranked Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in October 2011, among many others. I actually haven’t read it yet, but I thought promoting coverage could, #1 , spread the word, and #2, give me (and you) a chance to sort through the preliminaries. Check out some of the reviews and summary down below.

Courtesy of Amazon:

“A book that … makes you marvel, reading it, at all the strange folds a single human brain can hold … A grand, third-person, all encompassing meganovel. It is a book full of anger and violence and disaster and weird sex and strange new realities, a book that seems to want to hold all of Japan inside of it … Murakami has established himself as the unofficial laureate of Japan—arguably its chief imaginative ambassador, in any medium, to the world: the primary source, for many millions of readers, of the texture and shape of his native country … I was surprised to discover, after so many surprising books, that he managed to surprise me again.”

 
—Sam Anderson, The New York Times Magazine
 
“Profound … A multilayered narrative of loyalty and loss … A fully articulated vision of a not-quite-nightmare world … A big sprawling novel [that] achieves what is perhaps the primary function of literature: to reimagine, to reframe, the world …  At the center of [1Q84’s] reality … is the question of love, of how we find it and how we hold it, and the small fragile connections that sustain us, even (or especially) despite the odds … This is a major development in Murakami’s writing … A vision, and an act of the imagination.”

 
—David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times
 
“Murakami is clearly one of the most popular and admired novelists in the world today, a brilliant practitioner of serious, yet irresistibly engaging, literary fantasy… Once you start reading 1Q84, you won’t want to do much else until you’ve finished it … Murakami possesses many gifts, but chief among them is an almost preternatural gift for suspenseful storytelling … Despite its great length, [his] novel is tightly plotted, without fat, and he knows how to make dialogue, even philosophical dialogue, exciting … Murakami’s novels have been translated into a score of languages, but it would be hard to imagine that any of them could be better than the English versions by Jay Rubin, partnered here with Philip ­Gabriel … There’s no question about the sheer enjoyability of this ­gigantic novel, both as an eerie thriller and as a moving love story … I read the book in three days and have been thinking about it ever since.”

 
—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

If you’re still not convinced, consider seeking literary help.

Here is a short synopsis to give you an idea of what to look forward to:

“The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. 

As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.”

And as a supplement I have included a teaser for those of you who are STILL not convinced. :b As always, enjoy! 

(Source: amazon.com)

FML.

Guys, gals, trannies, and all the rest, here I am again, and back from its months long hibernation, with The Midnight Dilation. This week I’d like to greet you all with a new installment (Poem of the Day) to my all too tremendous list of interests and sub interests therein. All subject matter is responsible for awesomeness, so feel free to make this blog your first virtual stop of the day. I hope you do enjoy my return, as well as the poem I am to provide just below. Until next time’s entry! 

Midnight Dilation CEO,

Signed: Vanessa Soza

Today I bring you a hailed classic from none other than the man that is Robert Frost with the poem “The Hill Wife” from a collection of poems called Mountain Interval. But rather, I will concentrate on a small segment of the piece called House Fear because I think that this is something most of us can relate to, or at least those with an irrational fear of darkness like myself (which in term is called Achluophobia). Check out the site “The Phobia List” should you acquire further interest in phobias at phobialist.com. 

A little background history on the author:

Robert Frost is considered one of the first early poets to transition nineteenth century poetry to modern, often with nature as a mode of execution and symbolism, and with themes of love, loss, suffering, and mental illness. He was recognized throughout his lifetime and received five different Pulitzer Prizes for his work despite never having graduated from college. 

Poem of the Day

House Fear, a segment from “The Hill Wife” by Robert Frost

HOUSE FEAR
Always — I tell you this they learned—
Always at night when they returned
To the lonely house from far away
To lamps unlighted and fire gone gray,
They learned to rattle the lock and key
To give whatever might chance to be
Warning and time to be off in flight:
And preferring the out- to the in-door night,
They. learned to leave the house-door wide
Until they had lit the lamp inside.

Wicked cool. 

Layzner.

Cool. 

(Source: albotas)

My kind of woman. 

Almost done with Doctor Who / Season 1. I’ll be moving on to the new doctor, David Tennant. So sad to see Christopher Eccleston go. :( Also, seasons 1-3 of the original Doctor Who to come, as well as Torchwood, Dr. Who and the Daleks / Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (Dalekmania, the 30th anniversary commemoration of the films), and the comics and books spin-offs. Although, the reviews for Dalekmania collectively suggest that it is disappointing.

Favorite Season 1 episode(s) thus far, the two-part serial, “The Empty Child” and “The Doctor Dances.” (No spoilers present) The episodes detail the falling and landing of a strange metal cylinder in 1941 London during the Blitz / WWII. Rose and the Doctor follow it to Earth where they are surprised to find that it has been maybe a month since the “bomb” landed, more than likely the result of some sort of time trap, according to the Doctor. This means that they must embark on a journey to locate the capsule. Rose and the Doctor are in for a spin when they encounter a wandering little boy with a gas mask calling out for his “mummy.” As the Doctor is working to put the pieces together, he begins to wonder if the boy’s condition is somehow connected to the mysterious landing. 

For those of you willing to take the scenic route, I came across a pretty informative resource called the TARDIS Index File on Wikia. The site contains detailed information on terms referenced during the show which may prove valuable to the whole of the episode(s) or series in its entirety. It is imperative that viewers make mind of this information. The Who-niverse is a large one and you don’t want to get caught in the tide of misinformation or incoherent comprehension. 

TARDIS Index File

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_Wiki

Cheers!