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Uhg. It is almost 11 and I am finally chilling for a minute before bed. Today was one of the more crappy days I have had in a while. It started off pretty good waking up at my new lady friend’s place inside of an awesome couch fort we made last night. I wasn’t planning on spending the night per se, but the couch fort was comfy and we were both sleepygusters. This morning I woke up to discover it was nearly 9:30 and we had a quick parting kiss and I ran home to start work.
We live in an imaginary world based on hype. The “most important” things seems manufactured. The generation that grew up on Mr. Rogers is now living in the land of make-believe and suffering the consequences. The economy is failing yet gas is the cheapest it has been in over a year. The dow hit a record single day jump after freefalling the last few days. Banks are using imaginary money. People are buying imaginary things using plastic promises. Credit scores and terrorist watch lists are more important than criminal histories.
I had some down time at work and checking out some winter duds. I sorta want a new winter coat like the Russian Military trenchcoat I wore for 4 winters.
The gig at Shelter Friday went down pretty slick. I had a great time even though turn out wasn’t as much as expected. The DEVIOUSone played a killer set and enjoyed working in the space. Unfortunately, after the gig I was reminded how much I dislike the downtown scene. Barfly just isn’t my thing, but the Shelter is pretty cool. I suggest you go. This is probably one of the cooler lesser know music scenes around the Twin Cities.
My buddy Miki sent me an amazing Alan Moore video today on the Facebook. I watched it on an off over the workday today and have to say that I think it jolted me back on to my path I seemed to have strayed from. I have never known a whole lot about Alan Moore aside from that he wrote the original comics for that piece of crap movie “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” and that he resented the film adaptation of “V for Vendetta”. I guess I blew him off as a comic cook like Frank Miller has seemed to become. However, this video changed my mind about that… and reminded me a wee bit of who I used to be.
Doing anything Friday night? Venture into downtown Minneapolis to drink,dance, listen to some awesome djs, and watch me paint live at the Shelter on the 4th floor above Barfly. Word on the street is the DEVIOUSone is a killer dj so get your groove on Friday night. I have a crazy plan which will result in one of my biggest paintings yet, so if you dug my piece at Convergence last Summer, you’ll love this one!
I would otherwise say “this is New York’s problem”, but a grant to the St. Paul/Minneapolis Police Department for the RNC enabled them to buy numerous surveillance cameras for downtown areas. I wonder what will happen to those now that the RNC is over and people elsewhere resume forgetting the Twin Cities exist? I am not a fan.
I have not written lately about my adventures in the lizard bricks. That doesn’t mean I have not been working on them. However, today I think I came to the realization that I need to start over. The key issue is that the limbs keep breaking off, even with the concrete. This is mostly due to the joints being to narrow compared to the depth of the bricks. This would be fine in application since the interlocking nature of the bricks will displace the weight of a vehicle, etc. However, the breakage occurs when removing the bricks from the mold.
Does anyone know why people are still casting Dane Cook in roles other than in those new waves of farce movies (Meet the Spartans, etc?) In order to watch tonight’s episode of the Daily Show online, I was forced to watch a trailer of his new romantic comedy … three times. I can already tell the plot structure:
