Weddings: when a couple spends thousands upon thousands of dollars just to rub it in that they found happiness and I never will.
Seriously though. My friend Robyn got married last Friday (congrats!). I made some jewelry for her bridesmaids. It was swell.
I hate social functions and I hate long drives. I’m not a fan of weddings, either. This was a long drive to a social function (wedding), on top of my general funk & bad mood. I would have completely lost it, I think, if my awesome friend Llereni hadn’t agreed to come along and keep me company.
Seriously. Llereni? Marcos? My two best friends – you guys have no idea how much I appreciate you and love you.
Sometimes I’ll have a random thought, and then it will gradually morph into something completely different and equally random. I have transcribed one such train of thought to give you an idea of flighty and absentminded I can be (keep in mind this sort of thing happens to me, like, millions of billions of times a day)
Original thought: Man I suck at drawing.
Remember back in the day when I used to try drawing the Ninja Turtles?
Hehe, I like that part in the beginning of the Ninja Turtles movie when Donatello is all like “Bossanova! …Chevy Nova?”
Giggle giggle, that was a great failed Turtle-ism.
If I ever suddenly develop musical talent and start a band, I am so gonna call it “Failed Turtle-isms”
Final thought: Man, I can’t believe I bought a guitar that one time and tried learning how to play. That was silly.
And this one really isn’t even all that random, because drawing and music are like my creativity kryptonite. Go figure.
(And yes, I finally got around to scribbling some first drafts of that web comic I pondered doing a few months ago, hence the whole “Man I suck at drawing” part)
Once upon a time, I spent 8 or 9 years as an employee in the fabulous retail world. Most of the jobs I had were small places, maybe an individual store or tiny chain. Probably the biggest, most well-known retail company I worked for was the now-defunct KB Toys. And for some reason, I’m feeling a bit of nostalgia for that job. Continue reading The Horrible Misadventures of KB Toys →
This morning, as I was driving to work, I heard that “Money for Nothing” song on the radio. And all I could think was “silly Dire Straits, nobody’s playing any guitar on MTV.”
Every great once in a while, when reading something, I’ll come across a paragraph, a sentence, a passage, whatever, something that will punch me in the face with sheer “OMG that is so true” power. Happened to me just now while reading Monsieur Hugo’s Les Miserables, so I thought I’d share:
“The glances of women are like certain apparently peaceful but really formidable machines. You pass them every day quietly, with impunity, and without suspicion of danger. There comes a moment when you forget even that they are there. You come and go, you muse, and talk, and laugh. Suddenly you feel that you are seized! it is done. The wheels have caught you, the glance has captured you. It has taken you, no matter how or where, by any portion whatever of your thought which was trailing, through any absence of mind. You are lost. You will be drawn in entirely. A train of mysterious forces has gained possession of you. You struggle in vain. No human succour is possible. You will be drawn down from wheel to wheel, from anguish to anguish, from torture to torture. You, your mind, your fortune, your soul; and you will not escape from the terrible machine, until, according as you are in the power of a malevolent nature, or a noble heart, you shall be disfigured by shame or transfigured by love.”
So, as I’ve mentioned before, my brother is doing a web series called Geeks. Well, in this latest episode, you can see me, your hero and inspiration, portraying “Dancing Guy” in a dance-off with one of the main characters. (Note: lots o’ cussin’ abounds, be ye warned)
So I haven’t been posting on here much lately, and that’s largely due to… well, I just don’t have much to say lately. It’s been over a month since my last post – yikes! It was from June 13th, apparently – two days before I turned 30 and officially became old and useless. Yeesh.
So, well, guess I’ll just throw out some ultra-fascinating personal updates since I’ve nothing better to say. As mentioned, I turned 30 last month, and now feel like a crotchety old man. I was promoted at work, which is pretty swell. I’ve been trying to figure out ways to generate traffic to my web store and have been failing miserably (if anyone has any suggestions, I’d love to hear ‘em!). I’m feeling the sting of the ol’ loneliness bug and am once again trying some online personals sites (and am still receiving exactly zero responses to the messages I send – it’s just like the real world, only with the flat-out rejection replaced by stony silence. Yay!). I’m doing a rare commission to make some jewelry for the bridesmaids at my friend Robyn’s upcoming wedding, which is kind of fun.
I’m currently feeling that unpleasant concoction of nostalgia and bitterness that occasionally attacks me on Saturday nights.
Another creative leap, that is. I think I mentioned this before, in an earlier post (which I’m too lazy to look up at the moment), but I’ve wanted to do a web comic for a while now. And I think that I just might, against all better judgment. How is that against better judgment, you ask? Well, there’s two problems:
1) I have absolutely no artistic ability whatsoever. The comic would likely be a bunch of bizarre, malformed monstrosities posing as comic characters.
2) I have no idea, no characters, no plotlines. It would pretty much just be a bunch of random insanity.
So there’s the problems. Who the hell wants to read poorly-drawn random insanity? (Fortunately, I don’t really care and will probably be going ahead with it anyway.)
In case you haven’t heard, I’ve officially opened my new web store for business, with more stuff being added every week. After much consideration, and many helpful suggestions (thanks, Adam and Emmy!!), I’ve decided to go with my initial idea for a name: Alchemical Moxie! Check it out! There’s also a link way up on top of this site (the one that says “Shop”), and the shop has a link back to the blog here. I’ll be selling whatever I get it into my head to make. This’ll mainly be jewelry, leather stuff, steampunk-type stuff, and a few other things (juggling beanbags and, forthcoming, puppets). Please, please help me with word-of-mouth and send everyone you know to http://shop.psychicsandswords.com/
So. Apparently today is the 15th anniversary of the North American release of the single greatest video game that ever existed in all of history: EarthBound. So doing! This calls for some sort of celebration. (Hey Nintendo! A VC release would be really great right about now!)
As a follow-up to my previous post: I stumbled across this web comic that sums up my major complaint in a far simpler and more elegant way than I ever could. It’s from a web comic called Hark, a Vagrant – I’ve only read a handful of the archives so far but I’m enjoying the hell out of it and recommend you check it out.
And last but not least, if you haven’t been following my brother’s web series Geeks, check out the latest episode. It features my debut as Dancing Guy. I only flash past the screen three times but apparently my bro has it in his head to expand the part a bit. So now’s a good time to start watching me make an ass of myself. Woohoo! (Warning: contains foul language and general disgusting perversion. Woohoo!)
