silverphoenix

Good Morning, Live Journal.
Good Morning, Friends of my Live Journal
Good Morning to anyone who may read this
And a special Good Morning, not just to America, but the rest of the world.

Less than 12 hours ago, the 2008 election for the President of the United States of America ended. Less than 12 hours ago, John McCain conceded his bid for the Presidency. Less than 12 hours ago, we have made history.

Barack Obama will be the President of the United States of America.

Now I know I posted about this little happening last night, but there was no way in hell that I was going to be able to post something more coherent considering my delirium in the celebratory mood that was all around me last night. However, now that I have gotten some sleep, and let my mind think about this, there is something bigger than needs to be said. Forget about the politics for a second. Forget about who won, and who lost, and look at this from a different perspective, and after this entry is said and done, I hope you pick up on this too.

( Part 1: Lessons that we all as Americans can take away )

( Part 2: Never Give Up. It's not just hokey posiitve thinking bullshit )

( The Opportunity this moment gives us )

( Parting Shot )

Here we are at the Stage of History!! Here we are at one of the most, if not the most pivotal moment of my lifetime. Here we are, where we never thought we would be.

WE HAVE JUST ELECTED OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT!!! WE HAVE JUST ELECTED OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT!!

That's right...Obama is now your president. Like it, or Loathe it....LEARN TO LOVE IT!!! WOOOH!!

(More insightful post in the morning.)

It has been 27 weeks since I last wrote in that journal. And a lot longer since I've written an entry about my personal self (more than 2 years). Looking back on it, I've only posted memes, con plans, tests and the like, and that's if I posted all at all. I would share why I hid for those years, but it would make this entry far what I set out this entry to be, which is a proclamation that I am going to start being a little more active in daily affairs. (And this extends to other areas, too.)

Also, I plan on locking all of my other entries when I get the time to. I want to start over with this journal, and reading back on my past entries, I want to put the past behind me. Not because I want to run from it, but I want to keep it where it was...the past.

Why am I doing this? Simply put, I want to keep a log of the next calendar year. I want to see where I am going to end up when this decade ends. I want to see how much better I can make my life truly become as 2010 approaches, and as my 30th birthday approaches. Also, I want the input of others who I truly value for their intelligence, sincerity, personal beauty and strength. However, I want that input, not so I can do less work in this next year, no. I want that input so I can make my own decisions in the best ways possible.

The next couple of entries (which will be friends locked) are going to detail as to why I've been absent, and what I've learned in that absence. I think I'm now at a place where I can explain why, and can have others understand my reasons.

This has been another SilverPhoenix Journalcast. Till next time, see you all on the big stage.

I've been wanting to do this entry for quite a long ass time, but now I really feel is the time to do this entry, as I really want to begin to sum up this era of my life, and use what my experiences to make the rest of my life better.

So here we are, What I have learned in the Past 5 Years. Just a warning, some of it is going to be quite controversial, and just to bring that point home, I'm going to put the content under a cut, so no one is caught with a backhand slap.

( With that said, onto the lessons. )

And there you have it. 50 things I've learned in 5 years. It's been a ride thinking about all of this. But, it feels great to get it out there. First real entry in nearly 2 years.

To close this off, I'm going to leave you with this poignant quote. 100 Points to whoever gets the reference.

"Listen kid, love is the only chance of happiness that you're gonna get in this lifetime, and if you're gonna let a little thing like rejection stand in your way, then maybe, you might as well just stay right there on the ground, because people are gonna be walkin' all over you for the rest of your life."

Edited for 49 and 50.

My favorite sports time of the year, and you know what means.

Besides all the great Basketball. It's time to fill out your brackets and get absorbed into all the madness. In fact, in honor of this special occasion, I have created a group for all of my LJ friends to fill out their brackets, and join in on the March Madness Fun.

It's on the ESPN.com tournament challenge, and the details are as follows.

http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/frontpage - Website

Group Name: Sexy Geeks Rule
Password: Promotions

Join and prepare to have fun. March Madness Rules!!

Crossposted to Circle of Pain and Nerd Avengers

That is all I have to say.

You got served, Patriots!!
Tom Brady can Suck it!!! How was the Field Turf in Phoenix, Bitch!?!?!?

19-0....DENIED!!!

This is a public service announcement bought to you by LEK.

Who is going to the Sakura Matsuri at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens this weekend? Because I will be there for both days since it is in my neigborhood (Crown Heights), and I'm wondering who to look out for.

As for myself I shall be there from

Saturday 2:00 - Closing
Sunday 12:00 - Closing

See you all there.

Straight from the Myspace Page. Daft Punk Announces its 2007 Summer Tour. And guess where they will be playing on this tour.

Brooklyn, New York

Yeah you heard me.

Brooklyn, New York
Keyspan Park
August 9th, 2007.

I know I'll be there.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=11310518

I'm not going to Katsucon, so don't expect to see me there. To some of you, have fun. To the rest of you....remember it's just a weekend where you go to dress up in costumes, and act stupid for three days, in an attempt to have fun with friends and escape reality. Convention Drama is stupid Drama and friends don't let friends start Covention Drama.

Linwood Out.

The Subject Line says it all.

I'm going to take this journal out of hiatus.

However, I must tell everyone now. Things are going to be different, very different. And I'm going to sum it all up into a few phrases.

Heero Yuy no longer accepts his mission
Studmaster is not here, and he isn't making his return, ever
SilverPhoenix's time has come and gone (Though I'm not wasting 15 bucks for a re-name token)

The reason why I'm telling you all of this is because I think throughout the years, I've taken these names, and I think I've run into the trap of having my personality defined by the names.

I think it's time for me to be me.

Time for Linwood to be Linwood.

Ladies and Gentleman, Linwood Knight has returned, and he finally has something to say about the world around him.

I'm not going to Otakon.

Have a Nice Day.

Ever since Thursday I haven't been online too much. Hell, I haven't been in my house for no-longer than 16 hours (and 8-9 of them is to sleep) since then. I have been to networking events, parties, Business meetings and one more event with a very big and very busy call session. I have to say that running your own Business is alot of work, and time that could be used for hanging out, playing video games or and sleeping. I have learned that it is best to love what you are doing, or you will burn out.

Now I have to start recruiting and scheduling appointments. Now that I know I can acutally do this, the first step has been taken. Now it is time to take the next ones.


With that out of the way. Now it's time for pleasure. Anime Boston, I will be making an apperance for the convention. I'm basically going to just hang out. I'll be making my own fun for this one. If anyone needs last minute space for the 2 nights or even just Saturday Night, get in contact with me.

Now the 2nd most important part of Business, Panels for Anime Next Fan Etiqutte Uncensored and The State of Fandom. As it stands we have roughly 3 weeks before the convention, and I want these panels to rock as much as possible, so some planning sessions are in order. Right now here is the tenative E-Meeting schedule so far (whoever is invovled in the panels have problems with these times. Tell me ASAP.)

Fan Eitiqutte Uncensored (Tenative Time: Friday 10 PM, Length of Panel: 2 Hours)
5/25 (Thursday) - 10 PM
6/1 (Thursday) - 10 PM
6/8 (Thursday) - 10 PM
6/13 (Tuesday) - 9 PM (Final Planning Meeting)

State of Fandom (Tenative Time: Saturday 10:30 AM, Length of Panel 90 Minutes)

5/25 - 11 PM
6/1 - 11 PM
6/8 - 11 PM
6/13 - 10:30 PM (Final Planning Meeting)

We will also be meeting at the con before the panel, but stay tuned for that.

Well, as some of you may recall, I was gushing over a certain MMORPG in a post of mine last July.

http://silverphoenix.livejournal.com/126561.html - Here is the post.

In the span of 9 months, not only has the game gone online, it has also exploded in another area.

The Cosplay Area. If you thought the original outfits were awesome....wait till you see these.

Let me just start by saying.....

( Your official lj cut that saves your Friends Page )

( haha.... just from the designs alone you can tell it's a male designed game )

- I can't wait till game comes out in English.

I am finally doing this Meme.

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

1) What's your favorite movie?

This one is a toughie because I have several favorite movies between Live Action and Animated. To be fair to all parties invovled I will give my Top 3 in each of those catagories.

Live Action
1) Coming to America
2) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
3) Spaceballs

Animated
1) Aladdin
2) Beauty and the Beast
3) Mononoke Hime

2. What is you dream vacation?

If I had to choose 1. It would have to be a 3 week romp in all of Europe's Greatest Cities. Maybe for a Honeymoon.

3. What is your favorite city in the world?

Besides New York. It would have to be either Paris or Tokyo.

4. If you could dress me like any character what would it be?

*Ooooh, the possibilities.* :p But to strike a fair balance between kickass costume that I think a kickass female should wear. I recommend Masane Anou ie The new Witchblade from the Anime Series.

http://www.witchblade.jp/character/01.html
http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/8651/top022ex.jpg
http://www.dannychoo.com/images/photo/2210.jpg

5. What's your favorite hobby?

My favorite hobbies are Videogame Playing and Martial Arts.

It's that time of the year again. With Anime Next and Otakon coming up. It's time for me to ask for whether people want to be on panels that I am running. This year I am running 2 Panels for Anime Next and hopefully one for Otakon 2006. Here is what I can offer as far as incentives for each convention Otakon is dependant on whether the Panel gets Approved or Not, so do not hold me to that.

For Anime Next 2006 the remibursement system goes like this. Your Panel Hours depend how much you will get back. This means that you will have to register for membership by the convention, and the remibursement system goes as follows.

All panelists must purchase a full membership and will receive discounts after panels are completed as follows:
One Hour - $10
Two Hours - $25
Three Hours – Full Membership

As for Otakon...You get into the convention for free. Which beats paying 60 Dollars.

So without further adue, here are the Panels
( Anime Next Panels )

For Otakon I'm hoping to do

( Otakon Panel )

If you're interested, comment back or e-mail me at silverphoenix2581@yahoo.com

It's been quite a long time since I have posted. As for my absence. I'll go into details in another LJ entry (most likely a friends locked one. Sorry, but this is a little bit too touchy to make public), but I'm back, and my life has gotten interesting again in my eyes to write about it. So here we go. I have returned. And with some memes

( Trust Index )

Also....

Based entirely on my personality (so if you've met me before, block what I really look like out of your mind), hunt down a "played by" who you think would best represent me. Reply here with the picture or link.

This person may be male or female depending on whether *I* strike you as male or female.

And right now I am at the Hotel Lobby killing time before I have to leave at 6 PM to get on a 7:25PM Train back to New York. I just have to say that this con was simply amazing this go round. In many ways I haven't had as much fun at a con as this one. Alot of things went great, which cancelled out the things that went bad for an overall great experience. I will post a con report and my pictures when I get home. But for now, I have to get to the Train Station so I can get home.

Katsucon is finally here. After months of months of hype (for some of the worst reasons), it's finally here for better or for worse. I have laughed, criinged and overall have seen a great chunk of the tension that is getting ready to explode at this convention.

And you know what...

I'm going to have fun. I have far too much planned this weekend to let some poorly ran masquerade, and some peddily drama with an annoying little girl ruin my time. I have a panel that I am going to be speaker on. I have a "Stud Party" to run after the Masquerade. I have loads of gatherings, people to see, videogames to play, and women to flirt with. And I plan to do that all this weekend. It's better than letting her ruin your time.

Speaking of Lori....Guys....If you don't like her, just ignore her. The way I see it....she's like Dracula or the Psycho negative slime from Ghostbusters 2. She feeds off of the drama, and the people talking about her. If you cut her off from that, she becomes powerless, and is much less annoying than when you pay her mind. Now I know there are people on my FL that are still her friends. But my opinion from what I've seen of her is less than favorable, so I ignore her existance whenever possible.

At end of the day. While I may not have high hopes for the con iself, i do have high hopes for my weekend, and I plan to have a good majority of those hopes fulfilled.

For now, today is travel day...so be safe everyone, and I'll see you at the convention.

If you want or need to get in touch with me. My number is 917-282-3216. If you're getting there today. Give me a ring. I wanna hang out with you peoples.

And don't forget.

Stud Party 2: The Big Show Returns is on this weekend.

Date: Saturday
Time 11:00 PM (After the Masquerade)

BE THERE

It's ironic, for a day that is supposed to celebrate love, there is more sadness, more breakups, more neurotic behavior, and more people at each other's throats than ever, and it's all visable. This is the 5th Valentines Day since I started my LJ back in 2002, and I've gone through the gammit of emotions about it. This year however, I have grown more into the perspective of "it's just another day, and it's not worth it to put too much stock into the holiday, no matter if you're single or not." Far too often, I have seen the Valentines Day Crowd divided into these two extremes.

- The camp that is celebrating Valentines Day, and is putting far too many expectations into a day that should be perfect in their eyes. If dissappointed, even a little bit, this creates a portal of anger for the dissappointed and they usually lash out on the person they feel dissappointed by. And what? Over a Holiday that you shouldn't need to show your love for your Significant Other.

- The camp that loathes Valentines Day to their very core and being, which creates a very ugly sadness and bitterness towards the couples that are celebrating, and to the world at large. However, such sentiments makes these people look unattractive, and brings up many bouts of emo-like behavior. (I was very much a member of this side)

And with these two sides conflicting with each other, human nature comes into play, and they face off aganist each other with one side calling the other "emo fucks" (which is true to an extent), and the other side calling the other "non-understanding fucks" (which is also true, to an extent), which creates more stress for both, and neither side seems to understand each other.

In all of this I have to congratulate the Madison Avenue Wings, of Hallmark and their ilk. They have created a Holiday that has EVERYONE under its spell, whether they like the Holiday or not. You can't hide from it, and you can't escape. Valentimes Day is everywhere, and you have to deal. Even if you decide not to particpate in V-Day events, you are dealing with it by not particpating, so you haven't escaped that way at all.

In my personal observation I have seen that Valentines Day brings out the worst of both sides of the coin. And while it is not everybody that does this, there are those that do, and they all seem to follow a trend

For those with Signifcant others that fall in this category, there is the trend of...

- Taking too much stock into the holiday, and creating expectations that can not be realistically met.
- Refusal to understand why those who do not have SOs, why this day may be touture for them.
- Lording over everyone who may not have a SO or a date, trying to make themselves feel superior.
- Lashing out at an SO who just doesn't care too much about the Holiday when one cares too much.

For those without significant others that fall into this category, there is the trend of...

- Hating the Holiday Far too much to see that they are taking it far too seriously.
- Not being understanding of those who want to celebrate the Holiday.
- Diffusing Anger of those who have
- Creating an unattractive version of theirselves to others

Both of these sides need to chill, and realize that what they are doing is wrong, and are making Valentines Day into a cruel mistress that it doesn't have to be.

For those who have SO's, you are lucky to have someone to celebrate it with. If you want to, do so. However, realize that is just another day, and you shouldn't use Valentines Day to Validate your Love, only to express the love you already have. Otherwise, you're compensating for issues that your relationship might have, and will come out eveuntially.

For those who do not have SO's (and I'm speaking to you as one of your own). I'm not going to sugarcoat this, and yes I am going to Admit that this day can be unkind and cruel to us. Single people are punished, and made to feel like there is something wrong with them on this day. However, realize that you have the power to allievate this as well. Go out, and make someone's day by telling them how you feel about them, get yourself something nice. Hell, you even *gasp* Go out, and go to a "Fuck Valentines Day" Party, and maybe meet some cool people. Just don't let your anger get the best of you, and miss an oppotunity for something wonderful. You control your attitude here people (and this goes for those with SOs, too.)

At the end of the day, there is only one truth. Valentines Day comes only once a year. And while it may some may make it a bigger deal than others, it like every other day will end, and tomorrow will come. So make today the best it can be.

Happy 14th of Feburary to all.