Now ive had time to have everything in my life kick me in the nutz and pour hot coffee down my pants! I picked myself up, got an ice pack and developed a strong dislike for caffeine. a can think of a brighter days in 2011, but it has been a major test of indurance and dedication to continue the journey toward success. I thank 2011 for represention at Pop gallery in downtown disney, and.for the year I began surfing...other than that, this year has tested me to determine whether im worthy of being an artist, writer, creator of imagination coming to life. I enter the new year feeling enlightend, humbled, and quite more eccentric than even before. I am standing behind my convictions and human desires. I am a smarter and more respectful now than this time last year. I will continue my path of creative and life evolution and I hope to share my life experiences by entertaining those who understand and appreciate my work with social commentaries of oir differences and how we affect each other. I genuinly thank all who have supported me, my work, and my family through out my career! I will have a much larger presence in 2012, im ready for it, ive paid my dues plus extra credit, its time to take the stage and share the world of Strangely!
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
I feel like I woke up from a trance when this dawned on me!
As I spend the majority of my time in my studio painting, writing, or generally whatever Im doing, I found myself not wanting to be to far from my phone or the computers so I can see what everyone was doing on FB, Twitter, emails, ect. It got to the point to where I was checking it 10-20 times a day. I know alot of you do the same. We start living through online social networking. Our lives are made into what WE make them into. Needless to say with the holidays around and Mercury Retrograde, and whatever part of the universes machine that goes array around this time...it dawned on me. We are living ARTIFICIAL LIVES in this digital day and age. I was using FB and other social networks as a means to promote my art and let people know a little about myself, but, I was drawn into the world it creates...it's DESIGNED to draw us in and give us a feeling of instant gratification.
It's creating people to stay at home more, and to have less desire to go out and do things in the world. ANOTHER thing I noticed about FB is, it's another venue that sets us up for pointless drama. People deleting each other over stupid stuff, then the other person's feelings get hurt, (and some of these people NEVER EVEN met each other.) It's kind of insane when you think about it.Funny thing is, there IS NO WAY to DELETE FB. They only allow you to deactivate it and mthey make sure to let u know you may come back at ANY time and your account will be restored to it original state you left it at...
I'm not telling you all to go and deactivate your FB's, Im simply stating why I did, and not to let it interfere with our lives and if it does, be AWARE of it. I miss not having the distraction of it, I miss "calling" people instead of "Facebooking" them. I miss a pat on the back and seeing someone smile when they look at my art instead of 97 people "liking" a new painting I spent 80+ hours on. I just miss reality...I dont want real life to die.
It's creating people to stay at home more, and to have less desire to go out and do things in the world. ANOTHER thing I noticed about FB is, it's another venue that sets us up for pointless drama. People deleting each other over stupid stuff, then the other person's feelings get hurt, (and some of these people NEVER EVEN met each other.) It's kind of insane when you think about it.Funny thing is, there IS NO WAY to DELETE FB. They only allow you to deactivate it and mthey make sure to let u know you may come back at ANY time and your account will be restored to it original state you left it at...
I'm not telling you all to go and deactivate your FB's, Im simply stating why I did, and not to let it interfere with our lives and if it does, be AWARE of it. I miss not having the distraction of it, I miss "calling" people instead of "Facebooking" them. I miss a pat on the back and seeing someone smile when they look at my art instead of 97 people "liking" a new painting I spent 80+ hours on. I just miss reality...I dont want real life to die.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Another crazy dream: a live action haunted mansion sport Game!
I had a dream last night that I was in a competition where you have a burlap sack and you raid a REAL haunted mansion that's poorly lit and scary. The game is to find as many treasures that will fit into the bag. Who finds the most $$ within the time it take you to get through it wins. The catch is...not everyone makes it to the end, you can get killed or possessed, murdered, ect. Also, the game is only played once a year so there many contestants, and the treasures are NOT replenished, so if u are one of the last contestants that gets to scavenge through the mansion, it's harder to find valuables!
Friday, June 10, 2011
My Dream about a friend named Angus!
We were at some sort of event together...well, hold on, back up! Angus Oblong is a friend of mine, he is also the creator of "the Oblongs" shown on Adultswim! When in public he always dons clown make-up! I've never even seen him without it! So in my dream, we are at an art show of sorts promoting our books together, and neither of us really know anyone else there, then as dreams do...the venue changed into a poorly lit run down house (like something from a David Lynch Film) and evolved into something quite carnivalesque! Angus fit right in...I actually fit in too, it became more comfortable to tell you the truth! All I remember is he has a weird batch with him (which is pretty usual for him) and on a side note: his fan base creeps people out more than HE does...he's different, dont get me wrong, but, his fan base is some different all together and they love him! So we make plans to get drinks afterward as we usually do, but, also, as usual, we never actually meet up and end up flakin' out on eachother...hey, it's what we do! But, as we are leaving the building for some reason he sprays a squirt bottle in my face and as a reflex I throw my water on his face, washing away 65% of his make-up...I felt bad and he seemed to feel vulnerable to the masses because 35% of his private identity is in jeapordy of being revealed! Then the dream skips to me learning his real name...Tierte Ambrosia! Once I learned his real name, his make-up vanished and he looked like the whiny dude from Clerks, who would always say, "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" That's it...that was my dream...live with it!
Saturday, June 4, 2011
A small Tour turned small Chore! With a pinch of Gonzo styled living!
So I did Aneheim Wizard World...long drive, (43 hrs there, 43 hours back=86hrs of driving in 1 week, made a pit stop in vegas and saw the fam, came back home drove to Houston from Orlando, another 15hrs there 15 back=30hrs, then to this continues with various shows, let me save u the semantics and total up how many hours my fam and I have driven in the past month...wow, roughly around 200hrs!
My mom watched the kids and Shanna (my wife) Jarrod and I went to the Dallas Comic Con together and had a blast of a pot head weekend (don't judge me) it's every once in a while and much worth it, we chased a baby bunny around our hotel off and on through out the whole weekend, we were determined to catch that liitle bunny and pet it and cuddle with it, but, it was wily and evaded our attempts!
Next stop was Comicpalooza! My mom watched the kids for most of the week and we continued our adventure of thc induced fantasm! Comicpalooza was a success although my band was supposed to play, but, alas did not do to lack of organization of the previous bands, and a pinch of the volunteers lack of management combined! Either way, it was a blast seeing all my friends and fans alike and made out to be a great experience! Did live art on Friday night, and whipped out a pretty sweet zombie children piece of art,
and my family raided and pillaged the "Soy Joy" booth! Now Im back home and some old friends from Houston followed us back and are on a mini vacation, we went to the beach and my son and I caught a hermit crab, I told him he could keep it...he lost it in the car on the way home, so I guess Ill have to find it later when the smell of dead crab takes over the car!
My mom watched the kids and Shanna (my wife) Jarrod and I went to the Dallas Comic Con together and had a blast of a pot head weekend (don't judge me) it's every once in a while and much worth it, we chased a baby bunny around our hotel off and on through out the whole weekend, we were determined to catch that liitle bunny and pet it and cuddle with it, but, it was wily and evaded our attempts!
Next stop was Comicpalooza! My mom watched the kids for most of the week and we continued our adventure of thc induced fantasm! Comicpalooza was a success although my band was supposed to play, but, alas did not do to lack of organization of the previous bands, and a pinch of the volunteers lack of management combined! Either way, it was a blast seeing all my friends and fans alike and made out to be a great experience! Did live art on Friday night, and whipped out a pretty sweet zombie children piece of art,
and my family raided and pillaged the "Soy Joy" booth! Now Im back home and some old friends from Houston followed us back and are on a mini vacation, we went to the beach and my son and I caught a hermit crab, I told him he could keep it...he lost it in the car on the way home, so I guess Ill have to find it later when the smell of dead crab takes over the car!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The Walmart Dilemma!
I leave my house once this week to go to Walmart for some late night frozen pizza and I take my family with me. We park and as I step out of the car there is a dude (not homeless) approaching me saying something I could really make out...as he got closer I realized he was saying, "Muhbuh cha liffnuh ga ba!" I'm sure he understood himself, I ignored him and didn't make eye contact with him because Drugged out people creep me out! When someone is strung out they have a tendency to have retard strength and are completely beyond reason and very unpredictable and now he was hanging out right next to my car! So after we were safely inside Walmart, we alerted the manager that they have a shady drugged out dude (who was now directing traffic in the parking lot next to my car) outside making their customers uncomfortable. They didn't really do anything about it so I checked my pocket to see if I my knife I always carry at my hip...no knife, my son normally has at least 5 knives in his pocket for some reason...no knife...my wife normally has a pocket knife...no knife! So we get our pizza, and to tell you something about myself,I've ALWAYS been a great problem solver, and I used to be full of piss and vinegar and ready to throw down at any point, but, these days, I'm a lil' more evolved and fighting sounds like a pain in the ass, not mention I am quite passive aggressive nowadays! So, what I decided as we neared the cashier was to tell my wife to hold our daughter, and told them not no make eye contact with him and to just ignore him and get in the car...(my plan was if he approached me and I felt threatened, I was prepared to punch this dude in the stomach as hard as I could, and leave) I knew that if he was drugged out the pain wouldn't bother him, so trying to fight would be out of the question, what I would need to do is physically put him out of commission long enough to get my family safely in the car and home...luckily when we got to the car, he was inside yelling nonsense in front of the store as if he was an angry standup comedian and I didn't have to deal with him. Now my acid sack is full of pizza and getting ready to do some more art for these shows I'm doing in TX, which I'm leaving for tomorrow!
We are Bleeding the Digital Age Dry and Dooming ourselves to a harsh judgement!...well, maybe.
I was pondering over all this digital crap we have, and everyone's obsession with documenting everything they do. We have Facebook, twitter, smart phones that keep track of every call, text, and internet search, and all these devices that we can blog while on the go, right? Well, what if some grand designer has placed all of this before us, so we would document our sins ourselves, and on judgment day, this grand designer says..."ok, on this day, u did this and that at this time and now you will be judged by every sin you tried to hide and every wrong act u did during your life!"
I know this is a bizarre and unlikely scenario, but, I can't help feeling like we are being led into a big means to an end. Everyone is obsessed with what everyone else is doing, and people these days think that they are being deprived if they don't have access to their phones or the world wide web 24 hrs a day 365 days a week! We are all so obsessed with instant gratification and it's snowballing out of control!
My mother in law came into town, a few years ago to visit her daughter and grand kids, one of which she never met, and she was on her phone the entire time! My daughter who was 2 at the time threw her phone in the pool and so my mother in law could'nt wait til the next day to get her new phone "free of charge," and instead HAD to go to Sprint to immediately get a new one so her boyfriend at the time could keep a leash on her while she was out of town! This is just an example of what I'm observing humans doing. I'm guilty myself, I am by no means preaching...just observing how lame we are at survival. We have evolved ourselves from cave dwellers willing to club someone over the head for their sick and mildly retarded goat so we could eat it, or fuck it, or whatever, to THIS, in less than a thousand years? Somewhere at some point I believe that a higher intelligence, (maybe other humans who are using 100% of their brain capacity) from other earths intervened and set us up with this amazing information that would unbenownst to us would be documenting and recording our EVERY move in our life, removing them from having to continually observe us themselves!? we do it all for them, we are evolving into a pussified and pampered means to a tragic end! Or perhaps it will lead us into a age of enlightenment as we realize we have all been led into some esoteric intergalactic conundrum to entertain our smarter siblings observing us through out the Universe. Ever since I was a kid, I believed other humans existed on OTHER earths, and not more than 4yrs ago, it was discovered that other earths in fact DO exist and they are all much larger than ours...yup, I believe that aliens are humans from other earth-like planets who are functioning off of 100% of their brains and we are practically retarded monkeys that are blind in our eyes and poisoned in our hearts! Don't get me wrong, humans can also be compassionate and loving, but, this digital age thing makes me very skeptical to believe it's all for our entertainment...as humans, we are naturally sheep that want to follow where the masses go, and the masses have inevitably been led in the wrong direction from the beginning of time! I believe in a God, but, I don't think God is who everyone thinks God is...I believe God is our designer (and wants to be ambiguous), and Satan is not a person or being of sorts but more of "negative act"...I believe satan is more of a verb than a noun!
Anyway, this is just a thought that has lingered in the back of my mind and a suspicion that I have always carried with me since childhood...I thought I'd share it with you, and give you a piece of how my mind operates...it could be true though! If u think about it, this blog may be found by someone 2000 years from now and they could put in a book and convince a whole new civilization that this book is called the bible and if u dont head its vague and uncertain information it provides...God will come down from the heaven's and destroy you and everyone u love!
I know this is a bizarre and unlikely scenario, but, I can't help feeling like we are being led into a big means to an end. Everyone is obsessed with what everyone else is doing, and people these days think that they are being deprived if they don't have access to their phones or the world wide web 24 hrs a day 365 days a week! We are all so obsessed with instant gratification and it's snowballing out of control!
My mother in law came into town, a few years ago to visit her daughter and grand kids, one of which she never met, and she was on her phone the entire time! My daughter who was 2 at the time threw her phone in the pool and so my mother in law could'nt wait til the next day to get her new phone "free of charge," and instead HAD to go to Sprint to immediately get a new one so her boyfriend at the time could keep a leash on her while she was out of town! This is just an example of what I'm observing humans doing. I'm guilty myself, I am by no means preaching...just observing how lame we are at survival. We have evolved ourselves from cave dwellers willing to club someone over the head for their sick and mildly retarded goat so we could eat it, or fuck it, or whatever, to THIS, in less than a thousand years? Somewhere at some point I believe that a higher intelligence, (maybe other humans who are using 100% of their brain capacity) from other earths intervened and set us up with this amazing information that would unbenownst to us would be documenting and recording our EVERY move in our life, removing them from having to continually observe us themselves!? we do it all for them, we are evolving into a pussified and pampered means to a tragic end! Or perhaps it will lead us into a age of enlightenment as we realize we have all been led into some esoteric intergalactic conundrum to entertain our smarter siblings observing us through out the Universe. Ever since I was a kid, I believed other humans existed on OTHER earths, and not more than 4yrs ago, it was discovered that other earths in fact DO exist and they are all much larger than ours...yup, I believe that aliens are humans from other earth-like planets who are functioning off of 100% of their brains and we are practically retarded monkeys that are blind in our eyes and poisoned in our hearts! Don't get me wrong, humans can also be compassionate and loving, but, this digital age thing makes me very skeptical to believe it's all for our entertainment...as humans, we are naturally sheep that want to follow where the masses go, and the masses have inevitably been led in the wrong direction from the beginning of time! I believe in a God, but, I don't think God is who everyone thinks God is...I believe God is our designer (and wants to be ambiguous), and Satan is not a person or being of sorts but more of "negative act"...I believe satan is more of a verb than a noun!
Anyway, this is just a thought that has lingered in the back of my mind and a suspicion that I have always carried with me since childhood...I thought I'd share it with you, and give you a piece of how my mind operates...it could be true though! If u think about it, this blog may be found by someone 2000 years from now and they could put in a book and convince a whole new civilization that this book is called the bible and if u dont head its vague and uncertain information it provides...God will come down from the heaven's and destroy you and everyone u love!
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Cookies and Broccoli w/ a side of outsmarting a villainous Michael Scofield!
Need to buy groceries, i forgot to eat while working on this book, and when huger kicked in it was 3am and nowhere was open...i looked in my fridge and behold, "cookie dough and broccoli and cheese rice!" Not a great combo and im not proud of myself, but im working again and no longer hungry...
...as a matter of fact, i kind of feel like i may never be hungry again!
On a side note, the night before I had a dream that I was some sort of underground leader in the future that planned to over thrown what had become a super villainated united world government from power and the Dictator in charge was Michael Scofield from Prison Break! I had to think wittier and quicker than him, but, then in my dream I realized he was just a character on a show and I probably really am more intelligent so I masterminded a way to defeat him...it didnt work, but by the end of the dream I had stabbed him in the neck with my favorite mechanical pencil which didnt hurt him and I pushed him off a tiny train ride that we were fighting on at a miniature golf park! ...so, I guess, I won!
...as a matter of fact, i kind of feel like i may never be hungry again!
On a side note, the night before I had a dream that I was some sort of underground leader in the future that planned to over thrown what had become a super villainated united world government from power and the Dictator in charge was Michael Scofield from Prison Break! I had to think wittier and quicker than him, but, then in my dream I realized he was just a character on a show and I probably really am more intelligent so I masterminded a way to defeat him...it didnt work, but by the end of the dream I had stabbed him in the neck with my favorite mechanical pencil which didnt hurt him and I pushed him off a tiny train ride that we were fighting on at a miniature golf park! ...so, I guess, I won!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
The Mysterious Blog Glitch in the Matrix!
Okay, so, I made this blog available a few days ago remember? Well on the 3rd day of the blog, it VANISHED, I couldn't log in, the links went no where as if it never existed...I went to my account and it was gone, nobody hacked me, no one has my password and very few people knew it existed...it just vanished! Weird stuff happens to me all the time with electronics. People tell me all the time that I must emanate some unknown energy that make electronics cease to function properly. I can literally follow the same procedures as anyone else, and it works for them, but, not me! Which is weird, because for the most part I'm a very lucky person in general. Good things happen for me a lot, and positive patterns follow me...it's just anything digital, electronic, or software based that seems to elude me without fail every time!
Good news is, I got the blog back up and will be be continuing to post updates with anything thats relevant or interesting that crosses my path in this crazy illogical world!
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