Traditional Marriage Is An Antiquated Notion

I think instead of trying to legalize gay marriage, we should reexamine marriage in its entirety, and change the paradigm about what marriage really is in respect to the law and government. I believe that marriage, as we know it, is an antiquated notion in our society. If you take the romanticism out of the arrangement, what you have is truly a business arrangement and a partnership. This business arrangement and partnership is based on a mutual trust and respect, with love as a motivation. This does not and should not have to be held to the beliefs of a faction of society that only believes that it is exclusively a union between a man and a woman. It should be a union between any two people who choose to pursue it. The religious aspects of the union should be completely removed from the process as far as the legal part of it is concerned. If a couple chooses to have their marriage "blessed" my their church in a traditional marriage ceremony, then that would be a completely separate and private arrangement.

Mmmm Sonic Youth in a Vicodin Haze

I am so not bored right now. Actually, I am doing pretty well. Listening the Children of Men soundtrack, which is quite incredible, by the way. Now the Sonic Youth song which I have been into lately is a cover of The Carpenters song Superstar, and is not on that soundtrack. Yeah, The Carpenters. I often get into those tribute albums and may go back and buy the whole thing. It is pretty awesome.

So, I have been high for days now. I am to a certain degree pretty much high all the time. I've lost 10 pounds now. I am in the next size down in a lot of things, so I have bought new clothes for when I return to work. Mostly red. Unfortunately I am the fattest person I know, so I'll just give the massive pile of giant clothes that are now on the floor of the extra bedroom to Goodwill or the Kidney Foundation.

I have not been as into my art as I thought I would be. I get distracted quick as fuck. Ha...what does that mean?? Depends on the guy, I guess.

Bored Now

OMG. I am so fucking bored I am going out of my mind.

Another Great One

Assemblage Versus The Art of Cooking

Back a few years ago when I was in one of many marketing classes, specifically Marketing Behavior, I learned something shocking about myself. I was not actually a cook. Not that I was fooling myself into thinking I was some sort of chef, but I did have a few signature dishes I prepared that I could use to work my way into the hearts of men, so to speak. Turns out, cooks are very rare now days. Who has time today to not be an assembler, versus a cook or a chef? There is just way too much stuff to do.

So, if you look up "assemblage" in it's relation to art, you know that it truly is an art in itself. <More here on that> Either with assemblage art or assemblage cooking, you can make a really awesome thing, or you could really fuck it up. You still have to know how to "cook"...or design something.

Assemblage Chili...or just Chili

º 2 lbs of ground beef (fry it up and drain the grease)
º 1 onion all chopped up
º 1 can of Progresso Basil Tomato Soup
º 2 12 oz cans of diced tomatos
º 1 12 oz can of vegetarian baked beans (I like them better than kidney beans. Why vegetarian? They have less sugar.)
º 1 tbsp garlic salt
º 1/4 cup dried onion
º 1 tsp cayenne pepper (whoa...more if you want to make it freakin' HOT!!!!)

Directions: Cook the hamburger and drain the grease. Add the onion. Add everything else. Let it cook and simmer for a couple hours. Server it with some crackers and sour cream. Maybe some cheese.

Maybe you'll go mad and your junk'll rot off...

Another SNL Palin clip

Nothing to add...

Fugue Attack

I use to have this friend who insisted that one day I would have a massive fugue attack and then end up in the Florida Keys as a professional alligator wrestler. I must say that some days I think this is not beyond the realm of possibility. Although, I may wrestle crocodiles instead. Or kittens.

The Best Laid Plans...

For all of the good planning and willingness to make a perfect product, shit happens. Human error. Man interacting with his environment and having to succumb to its hapless whims.
Did the man see the leaf and think, "you know, I can only do so much"? Or was he in a hurry and just did not care? Or did it blow in at the last moment and he was completely unaware? Or, my favorite choice, did he just let it happen because he knew the results would yield a perfect outline of a leaf that will live on until the next painter comes along? A little piece of chaos.

The Lights Are Out But Somebody's Home

Well, it is day three without power. I have a feeling I am going to have to figure out what batteries this lantern takes pretty soon.

Earlier we had pizza by candlelight. How romantic.

We just dumped nearly every bit of food we had in the fridge and freezer. That was a little depressing. The freezer stuff was gross. We have a shelf with stuff that may not stink if we wait. We will dump that later.

I am adapting surprisingly well. Although, I am convinced that having this access to the net and means to charge my electronic essentials means a lot. I will need to do laundry soon, though.

Prediction: Thursday night for the power.

On The News

On the news...well, my house is on the news. And my cars. I am not sure which network. They are talking about the power outage from Hurrican Ike. Yes, we has a hurricane in Central Ohio, no less. Category 1, and that is enough for me. The ironic thing is that we sent 50% of our electric crews to TX for Ike, So now we have no power. Went out at 3pm yesterday. Thank goodness for gas. Atleast I can take a hot shower. Plus, I am charging stuff at friends houses and work, and have internet access via the iPhone!
I also have a kick-ass battery lantern. Love it!

So, it is not so bad.

Joe and I were doing unspeakable things during the broadcast, by the way. lol.

SNL - Palin and Clinton

OK, this is hilarious...and by the way, if you do not just assume you know what it means, a "flerg" is something that gives a man a flaccid penis.

Love it! "In conclusion, I invite the media to grow a pair. And if you cannot, I will lend you mine."

Now that is fucking priceless.

By the way, Tina Fey is Palin's twin - nothing against Fey!

OMG .... itza Black Hole!!!!!

Okay, I know it is only the first part of the experiment at CERN, and we will not know if they are creating earth-consuming black holes until October, but this guy has a funny take on people's reactions....

Sour Kraut Balls

Mmmmmm. I hate sour kraut, but I loves me some sour kraut balls....here is the recipe:

Preheat oven to 350º.

Brown 1 lb. Bob Evans Sausage (use regular and drain the grease)
Drain a 12 oz jar of Vlasic sour kraut. (drain well)

Mix the browned sausage and sour kraut in a bowl with 1 package of cream cheese.

Roll them into ballz...should make around 20 to 30 I think, depending on how big you like your balls.

Roll them in bread crumbs.

Place them on a cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes.

Lipstick

You can put lipstick on a pig, but Sarah Palin is still a crazy bitch. Specifically a pitbull. Hey, she said it.

I am so sick of politics right now. It is quite sad that America will keep the Republicans in office when it is obvious they are destroying this country. When he chose Palin I thought, what a ploy! Who in the hell is going to fall for that?? Well, I should have known better. I think we need to reevaluate who gets to vote in this country. There should be an IQ test.

Numbers...

GAH!!!!!!

Holy shit. I just found a tiny spider spinning a web in my hair!! I am f'n serious!!!

At first I thought it was a tiny piece of lint, but then I realized that tiny piece of lint had tiny legs that were moving.

EEEEK!

Environmental Issues

I have a plant at work. Today I decided to bring it home.

Bigfoot!!!!!!!

Yeah, yeah, yeah...I'll get the DNA to you by Monday. Sure thing....

Rockin' the Diabetic Coma

So, according to one of my ologists I am a diabetic, but I have decided not to let that stop me from enjoying the delicious salty caramel ice cream that Jared left today. Yum!! Even better with brownies. ZOMG!

Photo credit...stole the pic off his blog.

About to Listen

The other day I accidentally turned the channel to Cspan2. Yes, I am serious. My clunky right hand hit the wrong buttons and there it was. Some older gentleman was being interviewed under the hot-looking gymnasium and television lights. I recognized the name on the bottom of the screen...Vincent Bugliosi. I have always been a fan of his work. He was the deputy DA that successfully put Manson away. I read his first book, Helter Skelter, when I was around 15. Now I am ready to "read" another of his works, The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder. Actually I bought the audio version from iTunes. I intend to keep an open mind while listening...we shall see how that goes.

Read the wiki for more.

Like a Duck

Actually a goose...went to gallery hop tonight. It was around the time that the sidewalks were overly crowded with people. If you know me then you know crowds are not my thing. So, I started to walk in the street at times. Which reminded me of all the Canadian geese at work, who, incidentally, cause me to hop-scotch along the sidewalks because of their piles of green excrement. But I digress. As we were walking to Caribou the other day we walked up on about 30 geese. They all took off moving exceptionally fast in fear of us, which surprised me. Off to the pond, they went, to eat more fish and grass so they would have ammunition for my shoes and give me reason to skip. So, off to feed our caffeine addictions we went. On the way back we saw the same gaggle of geese sloooooowly walking across the street in front of a car. So, my point, just in case you missed it, is I would rather take my chances with a 2 ton vehicle in the street that could mow me down than with a bunch of unruly humans on the sidewalk.

Where is my mind?

I love that song...


This week I feel completely empty. It's hard to explain. You know, there is a certain sadness in the melody of that song that really gets to me.

I often wonder if the madness of my creating is to develop some sort of immortality. Not an actual immortality, but just a way to perpetuate my existence in this realm of being. I have no kids...but what guarantee is there that your children will carry on any memories? I have no faith in medicine, at least in my lifetime. The best I could hope for is a way to interface technology with the organic and somehow capture the data in my brain that makes me me.

Or maybe there is a heaven.

Five Year Plan

Long time no blog, eh?

I gave up corporate ambition for various reasons that I will not mention here. Lately I have been thinking about how I can make a living doing what I truly love. So, what I lack in corporate ambition, I hope I can make up for in artistic ambition. I will be trying to define that plan over the next few months to come up with something that I can accomplish.

I think my work has come a long way in the past year. I need to get in on some shows again so i can get my work out there.

BAR FOOD

Ah, the joys of conceptual photography. You can make of this whatever you want. It is mostly just a bunch of drunk friends playing with the greasy bar food and their iPhones.

Top Five Things From This Week...NO...Six!

Monday: Jared is recruiting everyone from my work for his company.

Tuesday: Spent a good part of the day in Riverside's emergency room because I thought I was having a heart attack...was just panic.

Wednesday: I painted two paintings on this day. I also had my last PT session for my neck.

Thursday: Had a great morning. Dave wants to resurrect The 614 Art Collective with him and I, James, Tom and Tim. Cool. We will probably produce a monthly news letter and do quarterly gallery shows. I hope this happens because I think it'll rock.

Friday: Soooooo, my husband wants me to find a new job. He is completely livid that I work so many hours. He has accused me of having an affair. Also, Dr. Mavian, my rockin' neurosurgeon, has convinced me to let him slice me open and put a cadaver bone in me! .05% zombie I will be. Schaweeeeeeeeeet.

Saturday: Won a Daily Deviation "award" for The Devil's Breath on deviantArt!

yay!

70 pounds later...

Even when I have had just about the shittiest day ever, this reminds me that I look hellah better at the end of it than a year ago. Once i lose the next 70 pounds I will post a triptych.

Art Plans & Discipline

You know, I have not been as completely disciplined about my art as I have been in the past year. I know I started getting very serious about it around May 5th of last year, and have really gained a lot of confidence and skills over the past year. I have had a couple of nice, shiny moments, like getting into my first juried show, which was nice. I need to enter more shows. I don't know where it is going, honestly. I have my plans, and I know how to market myself, but we shall see. So, with the assumption that I had all the money and time in the world, here is what I would do:

1. Prep for a Fine Arts masters program. Considering that my undergrad is in Digital Communications with a focus on Internet Marketing, I will probably need to meet a couple of prerequisites for a Fine Arts program.
2. Enter a Fine Arts program. It would have to be local and traditional. As much as I like online campuses and can work well with them, I would want to go to classes.
3. Concurrently, I would open an online gallery. This would be a sort of precursor to opening an actual brick and mortar gallery.
4. Eventually, I would like to represent a set of artists and their work in my gallery. Non-exclusive. Obviously this is just s starting point for them, and I would help them achieve the next level. I would have my work in this gallery, too.

Anyway, for now I need to get back to painting. I started out talking about discipline because I have had a lack of it lately. I started a piece the other day that has me baffled. Eventually, it will get done. Otherwise, I need to just move on. I scanned in the current version for my new stock gallery.

Stewie Griffin-like Delivery

This morning Joe got up to move something so Zoey could sit on the table between us, and then Zoey completely took over his recliner as soon as he got up. Joe was about to leave for work, so he did not care, but I "scolded" Zoey for doing it. I evidently delivered the scolding as if he were Brian and I were Stewie. Joe totally called me on it and started laughing.

"Soooo, Zoey, are you proud of yourself?
Are you happy that you kicked Joey out of his seat?
Do you think we ought to get you your own recliner?
Put it right here in the middle of us.
Yes, that would be nice, wouldn't it?
How's that novel coming along?"

Well, I did not say the novel part...Joe added that one in. And I am not sure if my voice started going up several octaves either.

Handlebars

I think I like this animated version of Handlebars better than the video with the children. It brings a little more of a story behind the lyrics. Plus, I like how they have animated a comic-book-like style. I am not sure whether the intent of the lyrics is about the government, corporations, or the young people in this world that make grand plans to blow away the people around them. Or maybe you can apply its message to any of those psychotic entities.

Speaking of psychotic entities...

Here is the version of the video. Evidently, Universal Music Group likes to keep people from embedding videos to their blogs, or else you could just watch it here.

Transylvanian Concubine by Rasputina

This is how I rock...(laughing now)

----RULES----

1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name. Fool! *’s are much classier
5.Put this on your journal.


1. If someone says, "Is this okay?" You say?
"God's Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash

2. How would you describe yourself?
"Kissing the Sun" The Young Gods
Lyrics:
Soon we will be on our way
Say goodbye to yesterday

Soon we will be in the light
Swimming in the open sky

We’ll spread our wings around the stars
Watch the way we drop our scars

We will be kissing the sun
Everybody knows kissing the sun
One and one with the one you’ve chosen

We’ll spread our wings as we get higher
Spread our wings into the fire

We will be kissing the sun
Everybody knows kissing the sun
One and one And the thing explodes

[Wild that it mentions scars]

3. What do you like in a guy/girl?
"Rental Car" by Beck
[Let me rent you for a while...I get bored easily.
Honestly, I have no idea what this means.]

4. How do you feel today?
"Timebomb" Godsmack
[Didn't I already tell you to back the fuck up?...oh no, I deleted that]

5. What is your life's purpose?
"Down with the Sickness" Disturbed

[ugh weh weh weh weh. ugh ghh ugh. I am one sick bitch.]

6. What is your motto?
"Szamar Madar" by Venetian Snares
[I'll translate this from Hungarian later on...all I know is the video rocks. It is about the creation of the universe, or some shit like that.]

7. What do your friends think of you?
"Over" by The Perfect Circle
[I am so over...that's ok. I'm tired now, anyway.]

8. What do you think of your parents?
"Gun Shy" by Liz Phair
[um, I have no idea what this means...]

9. What do you think about very often?
"Hunger Strike" by Temple of the Dog
[I have been really fat (morbidly obese...pretty words) all of my life. Now I am losing tons of weight...I'll miss being fat, even if it is killing me.]

10. What is 2 + 2?
"Where are You? (Carol C. Remix)" by Omni Trio
[stupid question=Stupid Answer]

11. What do you think of your best friend?
"Johnny Feelgood" Liz Phair
[My best friend rocks. He has taken care of me for twenty+ years. I dig him more than anything or anyone else on Earth.]

12. What do you think of the person you like?
"3rd Planet" by Modest Mouse
[Hmmm...I like a lot of people...and incidently they are all Earthlings.]

13. What is your life story?
"Up To Me" by Jethro Tull
[Why that is true.]

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
"Joey" by Concrete Blonde
[ha ha...more like Joey's wife]


15. What do you think of when you see the person you like?
"We Can Work It Out" by The Beatles
[And I am sure we can and we will, man....as soon as you get over yourself...or I get over you.

Ha...just making shit up again. Awesome, huh?]


16. What will you dance to at your wedding?
"Freestyler Remix 2" by The Bom Funk MC
[thaz hilarious]

17. What will they play at your funeral?
"Gypsy" Fleetwood Mac
[Um...that is not on my funeral playlist!]

18. What is your hobby/interest?
"Thru the Motion" by Pepe Deluxe
[hmmm...I like to dance.]

19. What is your biggest fear?
"Surrender" by U2
[NEVER!]

20. What is your biggest secret?
"Biggah" by Mephisto Odyssey
[This has no words...my secret is still intact!]

21. Your life:
"I Can't Wait" by The White Stripes
[Who you messin' with? Who you think you tryin' to fool. Whatever.]

22. What will you post this as?
"Transylvanian Concubine" Rasputina
[It makes as much sense as anything else.]

Envy

I think this is the place:

Short North Hit & Run: More to the Story

The other day the news talked about the hit and run that took place in the Short North that left two people in the hospital. Evidently there is a lot more to the story than "two people leaving a bar at night."

The people involved were run over by a man trying to get out of paying his bill at Haiku.

"On Thursday evening, a man left Haiku Restaurant in the Short North without paying his bill. Julie, co-owner, and Rachel, a bartender, followed the man outside to his vehicle. According to police, the man started his vehicle and purposely struck Rachel and Julie as he backed out of his parking spot."

You can read more here.

Also, if you feel like giving some money, please do. One of the people is an artist and the other is the owner. I hate to see Haiku drug down and put out of business because of this.

Ronald McDonald Turns Zombie

Sad news from McDonaldland today. It seems that Ronald McDonald finally turned zombie and discovered his cannibalistic lust for flesh.

This happened shortly after Grimace's body was discovered following an apparent suicide from a healthy dose of poison. Rumor has it that Grimace's suicide was motivated by the clown's constant badgering about his intellect and checkered past. Another rumored reason, but unsubstantiated at the moment, is the fact that Grimace led a secret life of cross-dressing and had astronomical credit card bills from shoe purchases.

Tattoo...Vampire Fish

Looks like we will be going to get tattoos in June...end of June. I need to redraw a couple of versions of vampire fish. I am getting mine in the middle of my upper back...down a few inches from my neck. I'm excited about it. Here is one of my versions of vampire fish: