Welcome to the thoughts of Alton Wang. This is a blog.Tumblr (3.0; @altonwang)http://blog.altonwang.com/<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5zlygWhWn1qzet64o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Why do we even bother dreaming?</p>http://blog.altonwang.com/post/847483486http://blog.altonwang.com/post/847483486Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:39:00 -0700pic pickI’ve been wondering recently what would happen if I just stopped caring. So far, this summer I...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/826263967http://blog.altonwang.com/post/826263967Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:07:06 -0700wordsI have these phases where I just cannot stop thinking about life, why we live, what we are supposed...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/808645820http://blog.altonwang.com/post/808645820Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:40:13 -0700wordsThis summer has been pretty disappointing so far; nothing exciting has really happened. Shi bu ke...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/779284652http://blog.altonwang.com/post/779284652Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:38:56 -0700words<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l52ml7o6oS1qbxsxno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Today was a pretty fun day; my memory card has way too many photos in it right now, and my stomach is over-filled, and I smell smoke coming from my window.</p> <p>Happy Fourth of July!</p>http://blog.altonwang.com/post/771838114http://blog.altonwang.com/post/771838114Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:19:00 -0700Yesterday night was pretty interesting. It wasn’t as boring as I had expected, and I met some...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/742652443http://blog.altonwang.com/post/742652443Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:16:13 -0700I’ve come to realize how selfish I am. These past few years have been difficult at times if...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/737282067http://blog.altonwang.com/post/737282067Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:44:00 -0700words<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZgWPbnwsIeE&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZgWPbnwsIeE&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://cloudyskies.tumblr.com/post/727587007">cloudyskies</a>:<a href="http://maduhlen.tumblr.com/post/727304575/alfreddosauce-katrinamarie-anthonycq">maduhlen</a>:(bunch of rebloggers):<a href="http://heyyoitsrobee.tumblr.com/post/720945303/delawareareyou-uh-i-am-not-sleeping-for-weeks">heyyoitsrobee</a>:<a href="http://delawareareyou.tumblr.com/post/715650422/uh-i-am-not-sleeping-for-weeks-so-do-any-of-you">delawareareyou</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote></blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>Uh i am not sleeping for weeks.</p> <p><span id="ljcmt440584670"><em>So do any of you remember those Mickey Mouse cartoons from the 1930s? The ones that were just put out on DVD a few years ago? Well, there is one that was unreleased to even the most avid classic disney fans. According to sources, it’s nothing special. It’s just a continuous loop (like flinstones) of mickey walking past 6 buildings that goes on for two or three minutes before fading out. Unlike the cutesy tunes put in though, the song on this cartoon was not a song at all, just a constant banging on a piano as if the keys for a minute and a half before going to white noise for the remainder of the film. It wasn’t the jolly old Mickey we’ve come to love either, Mickey wasn’t dancing, not even smiling, just kind of walking as if you or I were walking, with a normal facial expression, but for some reason his head tilted side to side as he kept this dismal look. Up until a year or two ago, everyone believed that after it cut to black and that was it. When Leonard Maltin was reviewing the cartoon to be put in the complete series, he decided it was too junk to be on the DVD, but wanted to have a digital copy due to the fact that it was a creation of Walt. When he had a digitized version up on his computer to look at the file, he noticed something. </em><br/><br/><em>The cartoon was 9 minutes and 4 seconds long. </em><br/><br/><em>After it cut to black, it stayed like that until the 6th minute, before going back into Mickey walking. The sound was different this time. It was a murmur. It wasn’t a language, but more like a gurgled cry. As the noise got more indistinguishable and loud over the next minute, the picture began to get weird. The sidewalk started to go in directions that seemed impossible based on the physics of Mickeys walking. And the dismal face of the mouse was slowly curling into a smirk. On the 7th minute, the murmur turned into a bloodcurdling scream (the kind of scream painful to hear) and the picture was getting more obscure. Colors were happening that shouldn’t have been possible at the time. Mickey’s face began to fall apart. his eyes rolled on the bottom of his chin like two marbles in a fishbowl, and his curled smile was pointing upward on the left side of his face. The buildings became rubble floating in midair and the sidewalk was still impossibly navigating in warped directions, a few seeming inconceivable with what we, as humans, know about direction. Mr. Maltin got disturbed and left the room, sending an employee to finish the video and take notes of everything happening up until the last second, and afterward immediately store the disc of the cartoon into the vault. This distorted screaming lasted until 8 minutes and a few seconds in, and then it abruptly cuts to the mickey mouse face at the credits of the end of every video with what sounded like a broken music box playing in the backround. This happened for about 30 seconds. From a security guard working under me who was making rounds outside of that room, I was told that after the last frame, the employee stumbled out of the room with pale skin saying “Real suffering is not known” 7 times before speedily taking the guards pistol and offing himself on the spot. The thing I could get out of Leonard Maltin was that the last frame was a piece of russian text that roughly said “the sights of hell bring its viewers back in”.</em></span></p> </blockquote> <p>I can’t handle suspense, so I jump to around eight minutes to watch just <em>a few seconds</em>. My entire childhood has now been tarnished and I feel unsafe at home. What the heck, Disney. What the heck.</p>http://blog.altonwang.com/post/727626095http://blog.altonwang.com/post/727626095Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:11:00 -0700<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l450uouEKV1qzet64o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>rosalyn’s over</p> <p>i needed help on chem, so she ran here— she really misses chem.</p>http://blog.altonwang.com/post/706531976http://blog.altonwang.com/post/706531976Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:42:24 -0700Xin shen bu ding means that one does not, or at times, cannot have peace of mind in the moment....http://blog.altonwang.com/post/702652442http://blog.altonwang.com/post/702652442Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:25:16 -0700words新七小福 - Go Asia! / ZE:A - All Day Long / Jay Chou - Superman Can’t Fly / Gummy - As A Man /...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/686041474http://blog.altonwang.com/post/686041474Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:34:10 -0700playlist<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3oitoVTAX1qbsd4lo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3oitoVTAX1qbsd4lo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3oitoVTAX1qbsd4lo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3oitoVTAX1qbsd4lo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://orenda.tumblr.com/post/675471734/another-aspect-of-my-good-day-toda-3-oh-and-day">orenda</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Another aspect of my good day… <strong>TODA<3</strong></p> </blockquote>http://blog.altonwang.com/post/675477109http://blog.altonwang.com/post/675477109Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:53:35 -0700To pursue perfection, excellence. Is that what I or anyone else really wants? This time around, the...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/666482308http://blog.altonwang.com/post/666482308Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:44:30 -0700wordsNo, it’s not a Chinese idiom. it means Super Star Avenue, a Taiwanese singing competition, my...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/625850837http://blog.altonwang.com/post/625850837Sun, 23 May 2010 13:02:00 -0700wordsThat’s right, life’s short. Very short. But I’m kind of sick of it at the...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/615310662http://blog.altonwang.com/post/615310662Wed, 19 May 2010 22:02:00 -0700wordsThis time around, my Chinese idiom is something I feel I am against. Shao nian bu shi chou zi wei...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/588161676http://blog.altonwang.com/post/588161676Mon, 10 May 2010 17:50:00 -0700wordsOnce again, I’m disappointed with my family. Not my immediate family, but relatives on my mom...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/586743607http://blog.altonwang.com/post/586743607Mon, 10 May 2010 05:58:00 -0700words<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vRjT5_YjdW0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vRjT5_YjdW0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Gummy - As a Man.</p>http://blog.altonwang.com/post/581737897http://blog.altonwang.com/post/581737897Sat, 08 May 2010 10:11:36 -0700http://blog.altonwang.com/post/569918200http://blog.altonwang.com/post/569918200Mon, 03 May 2010 20:52:15 -0700At times like these when we are supposed to study our asses off and “try our best” on...http://blog.altonwang.com/post/568073136http://blog.altonwang.com/post/568073136Mon, 03 May 2010 05:12:00 -0700words