I think they want home owners to fail. Yes, I have an iffy loan, for which they send me a bill for an interest only loan. But just because you get a bill for an interest only loan, does not mean you have to pay only that amount.

I have been attempting to send them double the amount. So 3 months ago, I send them that amount. The next month, I get a bill saying 0 due. WTF? They thought I was paying for 2 months at one time. Ok, so I go ahead and send them the same amount that month. Check lost in mail? I call, and they said they never received the payment.

So last month, the amount due shows up on the bill. I send them double the amount. This month, I get a bill saying 0 due. Ok, so I go ahead and send them the amount I'd like to pay. That was several weeks ago. I call, and they never got the check. Lost in the mail.

They also told me that if I'd like to make a payment on a principle on a loan, I have to write a different address, and request a form be sent to me in the mail, which I have to fill out and send back with a check. And yes, I have to do this each and every month I want to pay extra.

WTF? It's like they want people with interest only loans to fail. I tried to tell the woman on the phone "you know, it's sketchy business practices like this that have caused the entire economic system, and your bank, to fail". Instead of getting uppity, she just giggled and said "I know, I'm a consumer to, maybe the new bank's policy will be different".

This bank did fail early in the year. They were bought out by a new bank, but will operate separately for another year or so. I'm sure, just trying to force as many loans to fail as possible, so that they can get them off the books now (under the old bank), rather than after they merge (losses for the new bank).

And fyi, not everyone who got an adjustable interest loan could not afford them. In fact, most people who got loans between 2000-2007 have been paying them fine, never late. Only a small minority of those people could not afford them, and only a minority have failed. But unfortunately, those failures, and the banks encouragement of their failures, is what brought down America.

This movie comes out today. If you want to see a good post-apocalypse movie that's not ridiculous (like 2012), this is the one to see.

I read the book when it came out. Very good stuff. It's the end of the world, a man travels on foot with his son, trying to reach the coast. There's no food left anywhere. No animals. Very few living plants even. The few humans that are left alive are very hungry. And to them, the boy looks scrumptious.

Ok, this one is for all the furries on LJ. I've recently commisioned a fursuit head, that will match the body I made myself. I've made 2 heads myself so far, and neither came out like I wanted it, so I decided I needed professional help.

I need to come up with some furry art (drawn) or examples of fursuit heads or plushie heads that I like as reference. But alas, I don't look at nearly as many fan-based art and costuming sites as many of the other furries out there. That's where I need help. I need links to reference sites, or even pics.

This is a pic of my current body. The bunny, not the guy with the megaphone. Yes that's an ! on the chest, and stars on the knees and elbows (also a star on the butt).

The reference pic doesn't have to match the colors. I'm looking for a face that's cute. So cute. Too cute. Cute like something's wrong. And happy. Too happy. Happy like I just ate a huge stash of E pills when I got pulled over going to a rave. Like way to many pills. But also, not to complex, don't want to stump the artist. Big eyes, big grin... But not to rediculous or clown-like...

Any ideas furs?

I put together a new sample mix.  It's a slight departure from the stuff I've had posted before.  It's still really good dance music, but instead of just the same old electro/house stuff everyone else is playing, I thought I'd put together a mix of some of the new trends I hear alot in music.  Especially what's come out of the influences of former Eastern European ex-patriots living in the US and England...  As well as blends of languages, with some instramentation not often heard much these days...

Give it a listen, you'll like it:

neonbunny.com/MuseIc/NeonBunny_AroundtheWorldandAllUpInYurFace.mp3

Dear Livejournal,

It's been a while since we've talked, but I've been busy!  I'm catching up now, and wanted to let you know how I spent my summer vacation.

It all started about 4 weeks ago.  Me and Jody packed both our cars, grabbed our tickets, and headed out to this festival in rural Northern Nevada that was soon to fill up with many naked stinky dirty hippies.

( Long detailed fun exploration of Burning Man behind the cut! )

Next year, even more fun times.  I swear it Livejournal, it will be great!  We're even planning a Furry themed village.  A place where furries can camp together in the same district.  Not a theme camp, a village.  Made up of individual camps.  It's up to each camp to provide their own food, resources, garbage removal, drama supression.  Really, we'd just be sharing a common address, so no more trouncing around the entire city trying to find out friends, we know they'll just be next door!

groups.google.com/group/furryburners

Leaving in the morning for the playa.  Gonna be another great year on in the desert.  The highlight of this year, celebrating my birthday by burning a large man with 40,000 of my closest friends.

Me and Jody and a few other friends will be camped in the non-reserved area this year.  If you are out there, for sure stop by, at least for a Tecate or a frozen bloody mary.  We will be camped somewhere between 7:00-7:15 and C-G streets.  I'll probably have a piece of paper in my car window on the road that says NeonBunny, and look for a cluster of 3 small PVC dones connected together.

If you're rolling in Monday night, or setting up camp then, be sure to tune into BMIR (94.5 i think).  It's the most powerful radio station out there, and great to listen to when you're in the gate line.  I'll be on the air from 7:00-9:30 or so.

Also, come join us on Thursday for the Billion Bunny March.  Just listen to the radio, or follow the thousands of bunny ears, and you'll find us gathering wind outside the BMIR station from 5-7 for a pre-party, then marching through center camp, and then out to the man, where thousands of bunnies will demand the event be changed to Bunny Man, and the man made into a Bunny.  After which, we'll be marching to the large 25' illuminated bunny (you will see it), for a lighting ceremony at dusk (and drinks!) followed by a Disorient (the 40,000 watt sound system art car–look for the "DIS" and follow the thump) party at the bunny which will be running all night.  I'm scheduled for dark - 9:30 or so (playa time) on the Disorient system.

Other than that, there's many other fun events, always thousands of great things happening at any one time.  This year, going to try and catch some of the stuff I always miss, like the arial and theater performances from El Circo and Mutaytor, as well as the Gothic Rocket Ship launching into out space (just watch for the rocket ship taking off on Friday?).

See ya in the dust storms.
 

Hmm.  Anyone have an easy up I might be able to borrow for next weekend?  Free standing kind.  Need one for Pride in San Francisco... 

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Finally found something along the lines of a favorite show, which got cancelled a few years back, called Wonder Showzen.

Wonder Showzen was a spoof on Sesame Street, as if it was made for adults. You know, this show brought to you by the letter... joint. All kinds of crazy bizarre stuff. Where else could you see a puppet supposed to represent mother nature, except really wants to get a sex change, and has the letter Q help her with a home operation, which goes bad, at which point the letter Q discovers he's into necrophilia... Ya, all kinds of wrong.

You can check out episodes of Wonder Showzen here.

Well, this new show called Fur TV is produced by MTV UK.  Has puppets doing all kinds of wrong things, mostly involving societies favorite pastimes, sex and drugs.  You can catch clips of the show here.

I havn't been able to find the entire set of full episodes yet, but I plan to soon.  Might possibly by the DVD, would make for some great background material to show at a club or something.  Although I also need to refind my old copies of Marquis (the story of Marquis told by a French puppet theater) and Meet the Feebles (it's a puppet eat puppet kinda world...  by the director of Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson).

Also, here's a quick PSA from Fur TV on why to use condoms...

So Bunny Jam has come and gone. I have to say, after 9 years of producing this event, this year was by far the best one so far. It's always a pleasure to collaborate with some of the bay area's most talented artists and party people, and to do something completely unlike every other event around. The venue we used this year was amazing. And the venue owner was by far the most pleasant venue owner/manager I have ever dealt with (although Michael from the Stud was always fun to work with).

It was also by far the most work of any Bunny Jam as well. I personally probably put in about 80 hours of work at the venue itself. And a few other individuals did as well. And why do we do it? None of us make a penny on the event. And after all the expenses, we had a small amount of money left over, which is going to be donated to a couple of charity's in the area. As they said in the movie Groove, "I do it for the nod". The look in the eye of the person who's at the event, and having a life changing experience. Or at least having a good time and enjoying themselves.

And the end result of all this hard work paid off. We had so much going on, so much original art, so many original performances, so much to do, and all the right amazing people. And I saw many a person at the event who looked like they were having the time of their life. That is why I do it.

The only hard part for next year will be how to top this year's event.

And now that Bunny Jam is over, on to the next event.

Have several things coming up. Trying to line up some good summer time DJ gigs. Nightclubs are always fun, and I always seem to have no problem pleasing the nightclub crowds. Underground events are always alot more rewarding though. And it's so much more fun to deal with those crowds. Also enjoy playing at benefit and community events. I'm not in it for the $, and it's so fun to be involved with others who arn't worried about the "bottom line". Daytime events and festivals are always a treat. I'll probably end up at some of the street fairs i've played at before.

I'm also open to new gigs. If anyone has any leads, send them my way. As always, there's samples of mixes up at neonbunny.com. Lots of experience playing cutting edge new techno for the masses.

Other than that, life is good. Spring is here. Summer will be here soon enough. Plenty of opportunities coming up to get outside and go camping or hiking with friends and such.