Star Gate- Is Full Of Stars

Hello LJ, it's been a while.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:40:10 GMT

Hello LJ, wow, it sure has been a while. I should update my Blog too...

ANYWHOO! School is rounding the corner to finals, and I am excited! I have a 10 page paper, (no biggie) in English due, and I am writing it on Edgar Allan Poe. Should be fun. I am also working a lot on my animation final which has to be one full minute long. hooray! (also vomit) My Fat Batman idea was canned. Chris said it wasn't challenging enough and also he didn't get it. Huh. Also Craig is going to score this new one, so I am SUPER stoked.

Next semester I am going to take 6 credits again, as that is all I can get the school to pay for, and I will be taking Comics-Drawing and independent publishing and Animating to sound. Hooray! Then I will take 9-12 credits during the simmer to catch up to everyone.

Maddy started college the other day! I am so happy for her. I can't wait for her to come and visit during X-Mas. Annie and I wont be coming down, but maybe in January.

Work is a lot of work, with two employees leaving, I have been working way too much. But the money is good, and I deserve some Threadless shirts or something. Also, I think I am training like 5 people this week.

Things are steady, Annie is working for Argo tea, which is amazing, and only in Chicago. HA! So everyone buy a plane ticket and come visit. NOW! And we are doing really well. I hope we get some time off together soon. I am so busy with finals (being in the animation lab as much as possible) and work and so is she. Well Thanksgiving is coming up and we will have that day to be together. Also X mas break. Hooray! HI BIRD! I LOVE YOU!

Blog

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:27:44 GMT

http://walkingsquid.blogspot.com/

I will still be updating here with more personal stuff, this is mostly for my family.

out of context

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:23:26 GMT

I have been looking up many a costume shop to try and find a Storm Trooper outfit rental. It is going pretty well.

I am not as excited for my Fall semester at SAIC as I had hoped, but I feel I have said this before. It feels like a waste since I couldn't get ONE class that I wanted, but I need to get a lot of this crap out of the way, then I can start to have fun.

I can't wait for Expo.

Brian is visiting right now and man is Evil Dead 2 the best. Oh Bruce. I love you.

It has been raining off and on. Always nice.

I have been painting a lot of our old furniture, and I can't wait to put it all together in the new appt in Chicago.

I have quit Algiers, and got a raise at my new job. I get paid more than double what I used to at Algiers. An hour. AN HOUR. BITCHIN.

I haven't drawn/painted/sculpted etc in weeks. It is very disheartening.

My diet refuses to show results.

Other than that, not much is going on it seems.

School+Work+Art

Sun, 24 May 2009 05:11:26 GMT

I am not as excited for my Fall semester as I thought I would be. Damn.
*I had to wait and talk to an adviser to get my classes, so many were filled up.
*There are two classes I have to take my first semester. One is on how to research art and one is how to use my Mac Book. GAY.
So I am taking a history on modern art class, an English class on Dostoevsky and writing essays, Asian water coloring and an intro to the animation studio. Plus those other two. NOW, the classes I DID want: Intro to animation, drawing for animation, model making and painting the human form. I got none of them. Super Aids. Oh well, I can look forward to Spring.

Annie and I were able to secure an apartment in Chicago. It is 1400 sq feet in a vintage brick building with wood floors. It is the top appt on the third floor and the living room domes out in an awesome way. I can't wait to see it in person. We move July 15th.

Eric is adopting Tama and P-chan. Annie and I are bringing them when we come to visit AZ on Tuesday. Should be an interesting flight. Congrats to Maddy and B raw on finishing High school! WOoo!

Second job goes well.

Art is slow, but also well.

It is raining.

Man, that was almost a Haiku. Haha.

Well I am sleepy and I doubt people will read this anyway, so G night!

Update Time.

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:05:49 GMT

Things continue to move forward slowly.

I had a really good time in AZ for Brian's film festival. I was so happy to get to hang out with Maddy and the B-RAW. His film was amazing, and it was fun to see Max and Jordan's film 'The Traveler' on the big screen. It is just the first step in what I am sure will be a long and successful journey for all those boys.

SAIC granted me 2,500 for my merit portfolio. Woohoo! It's a start. I filled out my FAFSA and am now just waiting on my parents PIN to some through so they can sign it. Long story short- I'm for some fucking reason, still a dependent. Lame. But due to my dads recent unemployment I will be able to appeal with with FAA at SAIC and they said they will give me a lot more money, which is good, But more than anything I hope my dad finds a job soon, hopefully one he will also enjoy. I know it is slim right now.

I have passed out a lot of resumes and filled out a lot of applications lately. Nothing. Not a call. I am going to have to call Center Partners tomorrow. Algiers has paid all its employees a week late for the last two pay periods, which meant I should have gotten two this last time... I didn't. We are considering going on strike. But that would put a lot of us out of a job until our demands are met. We will see.

Adrienne should be here soon, she is visiting for a bit. WOOOO!

I have had a bad could the last 5 days. It sucks. It has made me lethargic, then unable to sleep. Awesome.

I went to a comic con in Denver that was a big mix of a lot of different things. I got to meet Amy Reader Hadly, who does the pencils for 'Madam Xanadu' through Vertigo and did 'Fools Gold' which was through Tokyo Pop. She was really awesome. She was sitting all alone at her both talking to Brian Wood, a writer for Vertigo who's work called DMZ sounds really awesome. I was able to talk to both of them for quiet a while. We talked about art and school and how to apply with Vertigo, since that is my dream job. I didn't get time to have an agent look over my work because I had to go pick Annie up from the airport, but Amy said that if I drop her a note on dA she would gladly go through my work and help me evaluate my strengths and weaknesses. She was really sweet to me and gave me a lot of good advice. I went to her an Brian's panel about Vertigo and then also to some about how to break into comics. It was a really good time, besides how nauses I felt the entire time. I really am getting into American comics.

But I do know I want to go to school for at least two years, if not the full four for my degree before I start applying to places seriously.

Also, I finished V for Vendetta. ...Amazing.

I am trying to work on some one shot page comics. I bought 17-16 Bristol board and have measured it out to comic page standards. We will see what comes of it. But I have had fun teaching myself how to use professional inking pens. It might be a new interest for me.

Well other than the stress and cold, things are fine. I hope I can get enough money together to move to Chicago.

Time to update about Chicago!

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:48:27 GMT

Well, needless to say, Chicago was AMAZING. I have already updated photos on my face book but for my parents I will also upload some here.

In the end I really didn't take that many pictures. Not as many as I wanted to. But when I was touring the school I didn't want to be that tourist kid taking pictures the whole time. Haha.

The school is really phenomenal. The amount of classes I am open to take is mind blowing as is all the tools I will have access to 24-7. Yes, the campus is open all the time. Rad.
I plan on never leaving the animation and digital media floor. Our tour guide even said that the kids on this floor never lave, and I thought, oh man, this is going to be my life for the next couple of years.

They don't have a grade system, so yea, no greades. It is kind of a pass-fail system. I really like it, because when you get out looking for a job as an artist, people are not going to care if you got an A in painting, they want to see your work. And at this school you really get out what you put in. Which I think is awesome.

The don't have majors. YES. I have access to all the tools in any of the buildings if I want. I really like that they understand that artists don't always do just one thing. I want to animate, of course, paint and take a toy making class. I couldn't do all of that at another school! Don't get me wrong, I don't want to spread myself to thin, but I want to learn as much as possible and get all that I can out of this school for what I will be paying.

So those are some of the perks of this school that really draw me to it. I cannot wait to start classes. I am worried about money of course, but I know I can make it work. I applied for Merit money and I should know by the end of this week how much, if anything I get. Keep your fingers crossed! I also have o send out my FAFSA today. Woooo. It is all filled out, but I have to figure out some legal stuff with an adviser first to see if I need my parents tax info or not. I really would rather be seen as in independent, I would get more money, but apparently you are not an independent until you are 23. GAY.

Other than that I am just crazy busy. I am trying to get a second job to save extra money before we move and pay my school down payment. Fun. I haven't had time for painting since I got back, but I hope I can make some time soon.

Also, I turned 22. Yikes. Where the hell does the time go?

I also might be in AZ soon to see Brian's film festival he is helping his school put on. I really hope my friends don't flake out on me, as they have been tending to do lately.

Pro-duc-tion-tivity

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:53:22 GMT

I have been really sick since the 15th. An awful cold with an earth shattering cough. It sucks. A lot. But I am getting better day by day. I also slammed my finger in the car door on valentines day and have just now gotten it out of the splint.

Becasue I have been sick I have had a couple days off work, which I have spent sitting around the house in front of the computer. I can draw now that my finger isn't in constant pain and swollen, and I concentrate a little better now that I am not super doped up on Robotussin, although I am still a little. Weeeee.

I have done nothing productive. Annie is in AZ visiting her sister for the baby shower until monday and I don't have to go to work, because I can't, so the least I could do is be productive right?!

I feel like I am going crazy.

I will draw tonight, and finish some laundry. I will. I promise myself!

Ugh, I have no drive right now, I am just going crazy sitting around the house.

OUCH BITCH

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:43:32 GMT

I slammed the index finger of my right hand in a door after going out to dinner on Valentines day. Super gay. I am pretty sure it is broken, but I have it in a nice splint, and I try not to move it often. It hurts.

This is super gay because I still haven't finished everything I wanted to for my Merit Scholarship. If I end up getting accepted by the deadline to be eligible that is. LAME.
Holding a pencil is awkward and painful, and drawing with my left hand is... interesting. But funny! I hope it heals soon. I really do.

So I am looking for a second job. My friend told me about a place working for direct TV, but it is the same kind of phone answering shit I did before. But I wouldn't have to talk to customers, which is awesome.

I have found a lot of scholarships I can apply for. I just need to get on it.

Other than that, things are chugging along. My days off will be over tomorrow, and it is back to Algiers. Which is an amazing place to work, but it will be awkward with my finger.

Also, going to a freshman party and asking the drunk kids if they have been on 'Wheel of Fourtune' and 'Deal or no Deal' or asking them if Jimmy, or Harold or Steve is still treating them well is fun. The reactions are hilarious. Then proceeding to find a can of cool whip in the fridge makes the night complete. Man, that house is going to be sticky in the morning. It was a lame party, I kept myself and a friend entertained at least.

Can't speak. Far to pissed off.

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:06:21 GMT

I am keeping a cool and calm demeanor, but I think that is due to the utter lack of understanding what is happening to me right now.

I was told by my administrator at SAIC that I would not have to submit SAT ACT scores because I was older and my art was much more developed than most. Great. Swell. I was told to fill out my application as a transfer student coming in, even though I had no college credits. This would let me have a free reign over which classes I chose to take. Awesome. Sounds great.

I submitted my application for admission the other day, after being told that I wouldn't have to submit one, only to find out now they wanted me to. Okay, no biggie. I got my high school transcript, wrote an essay and sent it it.

I called to confirm that everything would be okay, and of course it wasn't. The woman I spoke to didn't know much. She was telling me that there was no way I could get in and the things I was told were lies. Well, she works for my admin, who has completely forgotten who I am, even though I sent him old e-mails where he is telling me all this, so she went to ask him. He confirmed everything I said was fine. BUT. He NEVER told me my application was going under the extreme scrutiny of academic review. NEVER. EVER. Did he tell me that it is STRONGLY (as he put it) recommended that you send it 3 other forms of writing. Essays, research papers etc to show your competence in English at a college level.

FUCK.

Now, don't get me wrong. I never took the SAT or ACT and I haven't taken any college English, which they want two classes of if your not submitting score, so I can understand that they want to know your competent in English. WHY couldn't he have told me this when we met?! When I was e-mailing him back and forth with questions about my application?! I don't have any essays. I don't have any research papers. I don't have any writing from high school at all except some poems.

I have already submitted my FUCKING application.

Here are my options.
A: Sit and wait for a call from the admissions office bitching at me for not sending scores in and go through the same song and dance of trying to explain to them why I didn't submit scores or records showing I had been to college. I can just sit back and see if my essay and grades and honors in high school will be enough. Which I doubt. Very much. But, You never know.
B: Over the next 5 days I can bullshit some essays and try to get them in soon enough to get accepted in time to compete in the Merit Scholarship. Might I add that at NSA we didn't really write essays. So I really have no idea what to do. I guess I can pick a book I read recently and do some bullshit report on it.
C: I jump in front of a speeding bus.
D: Aren't there websites out there where you can buy essays?

I'm not even in college and I'm fucking sick of it.

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:50:49 GMT

I am testing to see if this will work.

I'm Awesome

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:09:08 GMT

I have been painting since Annie left for work at 5pm, it's now 3am. My BACK!
Most of my work went into my Joker painting. I can't wait to post the one I just started to work on. Did some drawings. 'I feel sick' is good inspiration. Those characters are fun to draw.
TIP: Never, EVER paint with watercolors on top of a canvas you covered in matte medium. A little is fine but to much creates a plastic force field. LAME

Still came out pretty well.
Original by Alex Ross.

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:03:16 GMT

I'm a sad panda.

All I have is day time T.V. and Booze. Oh and shrinky dinks, it's like baking art.

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:51:51 GMT

I will make this kind of short and sweet because I am really busy today.

I quit my job at Center Partners, and am trying to make money off commissions instead of taking a second job. It is going.... slow. Someone on dA is buying a necklace for his girlfriend and Vernique is paying me to paint her album cover which will be some really good money. So, slow, but going alright. I also have a few people interested in story boards, which is just awesome. I love having film friends. Here is a link about my commissions if anyone wants to check it out.
http://keiichisfuuma.deviantart.com/journal/22353057/

Other than that I have a lot of work still for SAIC. I am done with my application for the most part. I have the last hardest thing left, COLLEGE APPLICATION ESSAY. Nooo! Luckily for me I have a friend Blake that does almost nothing but be a bitter philosophy major and write essays. He thinks we can get it done in an hour, but I am less optomistic. But I am really glad to have help. My manager at ALgiers, Charles is giong to write my letter of recomendation.
Aside from that I am getting pieces for my Merit Scholarship ready to go. I want to put new completly finished pieces in, and it is consuming my life, but the work is coming along pretty well. I don't really have money for supplies so I am cutting up tubes of watercolor to get every last drop. I want that scholarship so bad.
Oh did I mention I havent touched FAFSA yet. Yeaaaaaa.

Awesome.

The best part is, I visit Chicago in March, and hopefully Max, Adreinne, Annie and I will be going to the cabin this weekend. If I can have a lot fo stuff done by then it will be a nice payoff.

Too Drunk. Too drunk

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:04:45 GMT

New Years. Oi.

We won't talk about it.

I have not been able to get my stomach to settle for days now, anytime I put something into my stomach it just wants to reject it. So I am only eating fruit and oats as of right now. Yummy, but bland.
I am trying to sell some art on dA, and will be putting up an AdCast soon, so if you see my add on dA you should click on it! Or you could just go to my journal to see what I'm working on.
Brian came up to visit and that was rad. He shot some footage up here for a short, and I hope it comes out well. Playing with fake blood is fun. Fake blood and Pizza. Yum.
Annie's brother gave her their old Super Nintendo for X mas and I have been looking around for games for it. Annie bought the Ahh!Real Monsters game, it is hard but I am determined to kick it's ass.
Arizona was productive. I am feeling so much better about a lot of things. And I hope your having fun in LA Lauren. Give Vicki a pat on the ass for me.
Well, off to work here soon.

Rules

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:22:39 GMT

I have been feeling very lazy lately. It could be the four days off I just had. But I feel as though I don't really have any rules in my life. Due to work at algiers, I can always sleep in, ans the work there isn't really work. I go in and have a big party with all my friends and hang out. I did get a second job at an inbound call center for T-mobile where I was working 10 hour gays 7 am to 5:30 both Sat and Sun. Which meant I did nothing on the weekends, but I quit that job on Saturday. I couldn't take the lack of human contact for that long. Also, a lot of the people that work there. My friend courtney is going to try and get me a job with her as a bartender at a restaurant. Which would be sweet. I really need a second job, because Algiers doesn't cover all the bills.
I guess I was feeling discipline there on the weekends, but I had to get up to go to work. When I get home I don't have to do anything. I clean up a little and then sit on my ass. I haven't worked out in over a week now as well. Which could be where some of this laziness is coming from.
Well long story short, I can't wait for school. It will make me get off my ass and work. Make me learn and create. I haven't been in a classroom for ever and I can feel my brain slowly going, going, uh, yea. Like that. (haha) I need to get off my ass and do my FAFSA and get my shit together. I have plenty of free time and I do jack shit with it. I need to be making more art and pushing myself more. I'm going to go work out and make myself do SOMETHING.

Be down in AZ soon. Wooooooo!

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:32:59 GMT

My downstairs neighbor is playing crappy electric guitar through an amp and the upstairs neighbor is blasting the worst music and stomping around in heels with her friends.
Murder. Rage. Revenge soon.
I have been up since 5 am and have to get up at 6 tomorrow. After the most mind numbing day at work, this is not what I need.

Hope you all liked my last post.

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:22:43 GMT

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-and oh my god!- its full of stars!

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:05:25 GMT

We pulled a aerobic bicycle machine out of the trash the other day. It works, and I biked for 3 hours yesterday while playing Yoshi's Island. I was trying to get 100's in all levels, and then I found a cheat online. My legs hurt.
The new Futurama movie was better than the last two, but that's not saying much.
Working 10 hours Saturday and Sunday is not so bad, but it makes time pass very quickly since I don't do anything after work. Where is all my time going?
Annie's cat Mei kept me up last night for a long time dragging mini pumpkins and clementines into the bedroom.
If I don't get a new phone soon the whole world will know my wrath. As in all of those in arms reach.
I miss Tracye. Boo!
Stupid Adrienne and Max will be in stupid Disneyland all Thanks Giving, and will have dinner at the stupid Pirates ride on the day of. Bitch.
I will be having dinner with Jordan and Reime and Fluffy. Should be awesome. Oh also Tanner.
Annie better make her Green Bean Casserole. Mmmmn. She made a cute list of all the yummy things she want's to make.
I found out about a Meadery in Boulder called Red Stone. Can't wait to take Max and Jordan.
I really want a WACOM Tablet for Christmas.
I miss Brian. And Maddy.
I don't think I will be going home for the Holidays. Haven't told the family yet. I know how disappointed they will be, but I need to save the money.
CHICAGO.
- Might I add, NO FAT CHICKS.

And that's what was in the news today.

Such heavy Polysics

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:00:37 GMT

This post has a long joyous rant about me finding a store that caries clothing for taller girls, so you can skip it if you want.

TRACYE is here for almost a week and flew up yesterday to see the Polysics show! It was an amazing show as always. I am so glad I was able to see them again. The opening band 'Black Gold' was really great and I purchased their CD afterwords and talked to the drummer for a while. I was wearing on of the necklaces I recently made and he commented on how much he loved it. When I told him that I had made it he made me write down my e-mail address. :D Yaay! He told me to play the CD as loud as possible and I told him I would turn it all the way up to 11.
The second band on 'Jaguar Love' was just awful in my opinion. They apparently are a group formed from other bands, like Panic at the disco and other crap. The singer just screamed and was screeching the whole time and the music was sloppy and awful. I couldn't believe how many people were there for them. After the show though I talked to a few people at the bar and they said they had come for Jaguar Love but that Polysics stole the show and their hearts. Damn right. They really put on the best show and all of their music is great.
Annie and Tracye got their posters signed by everyone and they were really nice as always. They also had the cutest stickers for sale and we all got a sheet.

We had a good time walking around the 16th street mall and getting food and going into shops. I was cold from only bringing a half coat and decided I would buy a new one while I was there. I decided I would go to the GAP and on my way there spotted a store called 'Tall Girl'. I thought maybe it was just a name but ITS NOT. It is really a store just for taller women. OH MY FUCKING GOD YES. Pants that fit! Shirts that are long enough and coats with longer sleeves! I had died and gone to heaven. Usually I have to buy my pants from Layne Brynt, which is fine because I am their smallest size which makes it fun, but I can only buy pants there, the shirts and other things are far to big. I am really glad I found a store like this. I will have to do my winter shopping there. It is a little more pricey, but not anymore than Layne Brynt is.
ANYWAY. Long story short, I bought a nice jacket there and it is wonderful. WONDERFUL. Adrienne you would LOVE this store. I think a lot of the clothing would look good on you too. It is more for a older crowd, but they have younger stuff too.

Well, that's what is going on.

VOTE, please, this is so important.

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:05:57 GMT

Tomorrow is the first time I will be able to vote. I'm going to go stand in line with the tons of others and place my vote, and pray it actually is heard, and not pushed through a fine mesh screen and turned into something it wasn't. Oh man, hope that made sense. I guess I am really stressed about this.
It feels like for the last 4 years I just haven't cared about the country I live in at all. I can't care, and that's awful. I can't love it and I can't agree with what it does. For once in my life I want to be proud of what my country is doing and stands for. Why is that so much to ask? I want to be able to stand behind it, and say 'yes', this is what I believe in. I don't want to always be thinking 'how quickly can I get AWAY from this place?' I know that I am very lucky to have been born into America, and that everyday, I and all of the people that live here and were privileged enough to be born here, take what we have for advantage. We complain and moan about the most inane shit. I really don't know what I think anymore, and I don't know what to do to stop it.
I feel that I really don't have any control.
I was a Ron Paul fan and even registered as a Republican to vote for him. It is really to bad that he didn't become a candidate.
I made the mistake of asking my parents who they were voting for. My parents are very inelegant people, I never thought that a persons race and religion would play the biggest roll in who they voted for.
I have been watching the adds, and the debate and all of the bullshit that is on the television, I feel blinded, I feel trapped, and I think the American people are being deceived at every turn. Maybe that's not true, but with so much terror going on in the world, and so many horrible things going on, and the conspiracy upon conspiracy, this is how I react.
Please, if you are registered to vote, please, I beg you, go tomorrow and place it. I will be becoming an adult with the new president, they will be in office at least until I am 25, I am tired of being afraid of my government, I am tired of being hateful of my government.
I'm voting Obama, and I hope you all will too.

Concussion day, is a very serious day.

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:23:35 GMT

Yea, don't drink in basement apartments if your six foot one. You end up with mild concussions. But Beer Pong and friends is so much fun.

SAIC

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:25:19 GMT

I was accepted to the School of the art institute of Chicago.
Hells yes.

Fresh new hell.

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:36:00 GMT

I go to Denver tomorrow to apply for Cal Art.
They're going to eat me alive.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:48:06 GMT

Jordan and I did a photo shoot for my friend Vernique's album cover. She paid a lot for her last album cover and didn't get very many pictures, so we offered to do it for free. It was a lot of fun and Jordan thought me a lot about lights.

Here is Jordan and Vernique talking while I set up the props.

This is one of my favorite pictures that I took.
I will be uploading a lot on my photography Dev art account.

RECAP BITCHES

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:22:25 GMT

Here is what has been going down round' town!

Mabbsy and Brian came to visit! WOOOOOO! I feel bad because we were in the middle of finding a new apartment to live in while they were here and it took away a lot of my time and money. But I had an aweome time with them.
DARK KNIGHT WAS A-FUCKING-MAZING.

Also, Watchmen anyone? Yes. Best comic ever.

Annie and I love our new apartment. The kittens like the patio.
Had my tooth removed, it sucked, but I was able to get it done for free.
Bought a 'buddy' seat for my scooter which makes having two people on it a more comfortable experience for both involved.

Annie and I leave Friday for San Fran for the Beck/Radiohead show. Hi Tracye and Brian!
...Really need to be painting more.
Have been watching lots of MST3K lately. Oh Blake and Jordan, brought that love back to me.
BigMcLargeHuge!

Applying for Cal Arts in a while. *sigh*

also this whole election is killing me, slowly and painfully from the inside out. The economy is really being hurt, worse and worse. I knew it was getting bad when SBUX had to close a bunch of stores and lay off a bunch of employees, and well, the economy has been failing for a while. What happened to the dollar being backed in gold?! Ugh, I wont get into this. But all around me, my friends and family are being laid off. Everyone around the world can see whats happening except Americans.

Can't think of anything else to say.