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Extreme Rock Climbing Goat
At our last planning meeting, DIM Media (Charles, Joe, etc) set some future goals – one of which was to try to do a public event every month. This hasn’t been too far fetched since we had our work up at 2nd Moon all summer with an opening for my work in May, Red Hot Art in June, 2 Shelter gigs in Sept, a Shelter gig in Oct, and Shadow and Sound in Nov. However, to further this goal, we need to persue more gigs.
[singlepic=90,320,240,,right] I know this comes a week or so too late, but I figure I better get a recap up of Halloween since it very well could have been one of the best ever.
Thanks to Nathan on the Podcaust forums, I discovered another interesting person today – Franz Reichelt. Reichelt was an Austrian tailor that was only famous for the manner in which he died – he leaped from the Eiffel Tower demonstrating his jacket, which is somewhat like the modern day parachute suits. However, they really only perfected the concept in recent years.
Last night before bed, I conducted in my not-unusual practice of ODing on Wikipedia. I don’t know where I started nor where I ended, but somewhere in between, I got on to reading about the Old Testament of the Bible. I am in no way shape or form a biblical scholar, nor do I aim to be, but I do sometimes think about the historical context to things… sometimes of which is the bible. I didn’t read the Davinci Code, but around the time of all the hubub regarding it, as well as the references in HBO’s Carnivale series, I got somewhat interested in Gnostic texts – specifically why these texts were not part of the bible, yet others were. Additionally, why do Islam, Judaeism, and Christianity essentially share the same old Testements, but only “essentially” (i.e. some differences and texts left out or included). To be fair, I have not given this much thought outside of “huh, that is kinda weird” and then go back to doing whatever I was doing.
I picked up a copy of Vita.MN today to see an ad for Crypticon Minneapolis running Novemeber 14th – 16th. I am not a convention kiddo, but afte Toni and I were set on going to CONvergence and then couldn’t at the last minute due to the 4th O’ July holiday, I sorta have an inikling to go. I think I subconciously added it to my list of things to do before I die. So… anyone want to go see the guy that played the bunny in Donny Darko, a couple incarnations of Jason, the master of disguise Doug Jones (fish guy in Hellboy, Pan, Silver Surfer, etc), or just some horror groupies?
Arika cut my hair last night and did a fricken awesome job. If she quits teaching and goes back behind the chair, I highly reccomend you visit her. Anywho, I figured I would post a few preview pics.
Last night was a weird combo of emotions that led me to un-needed worrying. Figuring out my bills for the next few months was troubling, although Jon did suggest that he could loan me some cash to pay off the furniture in time – awesome guy. I was fretting over my lack of creative output lately. I was fretting over potentally usless things I do like podcasting and music (especially the timing of dropping $400 on an mbox the day my truck crapped out). Thinking about the economy and the potentially hard times coming wasn’t good either. A few run ins with increasingly desperate beggers and watching Dexter season 3 probably didn’t help either. On top of that, my lady friend is ill and I couldn’t get a hold of her. Dreams of her getting attacked (again) by vagrants while walking her dog popped into my head. So I worried…. and didn’t sleep well.
I figured out my bills today and… damn, I am broke.