I miff my toof :(

So... Yesterday I had my right front tooth extracted. Goodbye old friend. :( It put up a noble battle. It had held on for twelve yearsdespite all the damage the drunk driver inflicted on me. *sigh* I want my toof back. :( I have stitches and bleeding and a temporary denture now. It's all ugly and uncomfortable. In a year I'll have an implant but it's not the same was my toof. I take good care of my teeth and the only problems they have ever had was due to the actions of one drunkard in a car. :/ Sometimes it really angers me how people like that get little more than a slap on the wrist. The guy that ran down and killed my friend Becky in highschool got only community service and his liscense suspended until he was 25. He was a minor so he didn't even get a criminal record for murdering one of my best friends. :/ Isn't america great? We just let people comit crimes of ignorance and arrogance with very little reprisal. I bet that Bush's daughters never spent so much as an hour behind bars, and even if they'd killed someone, they'd have got nothing. :/

Me. I got hit in Pennsylvania which is a no-fault insurance state, so even though the guy was drunk and ran a stopsign and nearly killed a pedestrian, it wasn't his fault. My car insurance paid for my hospital stay and myc ar insurance rates went up. I lost some of my memory, three teeth, and much of my face. In the years since the accident, I've had continued trouble with my damaged teeth. In the lastyear I spent about $2000 trying to save my tooth and before this adventure is over, I'll have spent almost another $2000 on it and it will last maybe 10 or 20 years, at which point I have to repeat this process. I'm not even counting the time off work or the pain and suffering. *sigh*

Anyhow, enough of this, I guess. Just a little sad and upset. I miss my toof. :( I can't even speak now.\

Movies movies movies

Been trying to pick up DVDs of things that I like or interest me when I see them but lately I haven't had a chance to watch the things I got. So last night and today I've been using my notebook to work (since I'm doing work work and not animating) and watching some of these DVDs. Yay! Of course, my interests are pretty weird I guess. So far I've watched Watership Down, Castle in the Sky, Heavy Metal, and up next Plymptoons

I'm very happy witht he DVD copy of Heavy Metal I had only seen it as a very battered original release movie print and a copy of a copy of a copy VHS. There is so much more detail to the artwork than I could see.

So, okay, I know, a lot of people consider it a schlock movie. I have a keen interest in old animation which is not mainstream. Sure,s ometimes the motion isn't so good or the stories aren't so good, but it's original and it was made because the people making it were really geeks on that particular topic, not mad after 5 years of market research and a toyline. So some of my favourite non-japanese animations are early Disney movies, and stuff like Heavy Metal, Fantastic Planet, Yellow Submarine, Watership Down, the Plague Dogs, Ralph Bakshi's various works, etc. I dunno. It's work that inspires me and makes me believe that I can tell my own stories and so, maybe not so many people see them, or maybe it's not as c4rystal clean as Disney, that's not what is important to me. It's telling the story that counts.

-Sammi