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loopychewDay 11 - Your Siblings
I used to say that Jamie was my birds-of-a-feather brother and Andrew was my opposites-attract brother, and that may have been true a long time back, but in the wake of things that changed.
If it weren't for Jamie learning violin, I never would have had the tantrum that put me on a piano, because it was my childlike belief that pianos and violins duet that drove me. If it weren't for his being able to argue on our behalf that I ever got to see games like Wing Commander and Ultima Underworld, and started learning to modify things like the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files back when those actually meant something. He led the campaign to upgrade our DX/33 to a whopping 32MB of RAM and created the little thermometer for our savings jar (okay, it was a progress meter, but the idea's the same).
Jamie's friend was the one who had the entire run of Robotech, which we'd watch from time to time at his place (we had the Jack McKinney books at home). Sometime after people stopped calling it "Japanimation," Jamie would later introduce me to Kosuke Fujishima and Rumiko Takahashi. He also helped out with an Evangelion fan continuation called Evangelion R, designing the EVA-01 model and doing the early test renders (back then, this was HUGE, and it was probably for this reason that he wanted those 32MB of RAM). Later on, when DVDs started becoming the norm for video release, he's the one who encouraged me to switch to the English track on Trigun and Bebop.
In short, Jamie was single-handedly responsible for all the geeky bits of my life--the computer fixing, fanfic, RPGs, the anime and manga, anything involving using the computer as a multimedia tool (that's right, if it weren't for him, I'd never have figured out how to use my first MIDI sequencer), fanfic, and if you think about the ripple of things, I suppose he's the one indirectly responsible for my introduction to rhythm and music gaming, since without the buzz from the #IFF chatroom and the anime community of the time I never would've thought twice about trying Dance Dance Revolution on for size. I suppose he's also responsible for the circumstances that netted me a LiveJournal account, since it was the thing to do at #iff at the time, and his funeral was my first post, back before I decided to start friends-locking things.
Andrew dismissed most of our stuff together as being far too geeky and lame, and to this day doesn't care for anime and manga--probably even moreso because of our slavish devotion to it. He liked video and computer games well enough, obviously, and we'd all have that in common--being trounced by Dad in Dr. Mario, drumming our hands on the Power Pad to cheat at World Class Track Meet, the occasional arcade scouring, etc.
Also for Andrew and me, we had music. While Jamie and I played together a lot, Andrew and I listened to a lot of it together. My first major-act band concert was No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom '97 tour with him (after the girl I was interested in turned me down), and we had a blast--The Vandals and Toy Soldiers opened, and we loved the former if we didn't care for the latter.
Andrew is also responsible for introducing me to most of the music I listen to today, and for keeping me up to date on these things. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have started watching a lot of the TV shows I have, too (in particular, he was the one that introduced me to 24, Coupling, How I Met Your Mother, and most recently Friday Night Lights; somewhere in between all of those he tried to get me to watch The Wire and Freaks and Geeks, of which I've only recently started and finished the first two seasons of the former and all of the latter).
Despite being dismissive of a lot of the geeky things we used to do, Andrew started getting deeper into technology as time went by. Seeing as he had the aptitude for filming videos and editing them in just the right way even in high school, I don't know how much of it was our influence, and how much of it was just him trying to better himself in his craft. He was the one who got me onto Digg, and has been advocating Reddit for the better part of a year. He also introduced me to Threadless, and bought me the tee I wore in yesterday's entry as a Christmas gift (amongst others).
I guess the simplest way of looking at it is that Jamie is responsible for my geek half, and Andrew is responsible for my not-geek half.
Sometimes I wonder what life would be like if Jamie were still alive today. I honestly have no idea, but I doubt it would have been anything like the one I'm leading now.
Day 01 - Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Your first love
Day 03 – Your parents
Day 04 – What you ate today
Day 05 – Your definition of love
Day 06 – Your day
Day 07 – Your best friend
Day 08 – A moment
Day 09 – Your beliefs
Day 10 – What you wore today
Day 11 – Your siblings
Day 12 – What’s in your bag
Day 13 – This week
Day 14 – What you wore today
Day 15 – Your dreams
Day 16 – Your first kiss
Day 17 – Your favorite memory
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday
Day 19 – Something you regret
Day 20 – This month
Day 21 – Another moment
Day 22 – Something that upsets you
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – A first
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your aspirations
Day 30 – One last moment
I used to say that Jamie was my birds-of-a-feather brother and Andrew was my opposites-attract brother, and that may have been true a long time back, but in the wake of things that changed.
If it weren't for Jamie learning violin, I never would have had the tantrum that put me on a piano, because it was my childlike belief that pianos and violins duet that drove me. If it weren't for his being able to argue on our behalf that I ever got to see games like Wing Commander and Ultima Underworld, and started learning to modify things like the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files back when those actually meant something. He led the campaign to upgrade our DX/33 to a whopping 32MB of RAM and created the little thermometer for our savings jar (okay, it was a progress meter, but the idea's the same).
Jamie's friend was the one who had the entire run of Robotech, which we'd watch from time to time at his place (we had the Jack McKinney books at home). Sometime after people stopped calling it "Japanimation," Jamie would later introduce me to Kosuke Fujishima and Rumiko Takahashi. He also helped out with an Evangelion fan continuation called Evangelion R, designing the EVA-01 model and doing the early test renders (back then, this was HUGE, and it was probably for this reason that he wanted those 32MB of RAM). Later on, when DVDs started becoming the norm for video release, he's the one who encouraged me to switch to the English track on Trigun and Bebop.
In short, Jamie was single-handedly responsible for all the geeky bits of my life--the computer fixing, fanfic, RPGs, the anime and manga, anything involving using the computer as a multimedia tool (that's right, if it weren't for him, I'd never have figured out how to use my first MIDI sequencer), fanfic, and if you think about the ripple of things, I suppose he's the one indirectly responsible for my introduction to rhythm and music gaming, since without the buzz from the #IFF chatroom and the anime community of the time I never would've thought twice about trying Dance Dance Revolution on for size. I suppose he's also responsible for the circumstances that netted me a LiveJournal account, since it was the thing to do at #iff at the time, and his funeral was my first post, back before I decided to start friends-locking things.
Andrew dismissed most of our stuff together as being far too geeky and lame, and to this day doesn't care for anime and manga--probably even moreso because of our slavish devotion to it. He liked video and computer games well enough, obviously, and we'd all have that in common--being trounced by Dad in Dr. Mario, drumming our hands on the Power Pad to cheat at World Class Track Meet, the occasional arcade scouring, etc.
Also for Andrew and me, we had music. While Jamie and I played together a lot, Andrew and I listened to a lot of it together. My first major-act band concert was No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom '97 tour with him (after the girl I was interested in turned me down), and we had a blast--The Vandals and Toy Soldiers opened, and we loved the former if we didn't care for the latter.
Andrew is also responsible for introducing me to most of the music I listen to today, and for keeping me up to date on these things. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have started watching a lot of the TV shows I have, too (in particular, he was the one that introduced me to 24, Coupling, How I Met Your Mother, and most recently Friday Night Lights; somewhere in between all of those he tried to get me to watch The Wire and Freaks and Geeks, of which I've only recently started and finished the first two seasons of the former and all of the latter).
Despite being dismissive of a lot of the geeky things we used to do, Andrew started getting deeper into technology as time went by. Seeing as he had the aptitude for filming videos and editing them in just the right way even in high school, I don't know how much of it was our influence, and how much of it was just him trying to better himself in his craft. He was the one who got me onto Digg, and has been advocating Reddit for the better part of a year. He also introduced me to Threadless, and bought me the tee I wore in yesterday's entry as a Christmas gift (amongst others).
I guess the simplest way of looking at it is that Jamie is responsible for my geek half, and Andrew is responsible for my not-geek half.
Sometimes I wonder what life would be like if Jamie were still alive today. I honestly have no idea, but I doubt it would have been anything like the one I'm leading now.
Day 02 – Your first love
Day 03 – Your parents
Day 04 – What you ate today
Day 05 – Your definition of love
Day 06 – Your day
Day 07 – Your best friend
Day 08 – A moment
Day 09 – Your beliefs
Day 10 – What you wore today
Day 11 – Your siblings
Day 12 – What’s in your bag
Day 13 – This week
Day 14 – What you wore today
Day 15 – Your dreams
Day 16 – Your first kiss
Day 17 – Your favorite memory
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday
Day 19 – Something you regret
Day 20 – This month
Day 21 – Another moment
Day 22 – Something that upsets you
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – A first
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your aspirations
Day 30 – One last moment
