tufk1d tag:www.uberbrain.com,2008:/tufk1d//31 2008-10-09T06:11:55Z music collector attempting to find new and creative ways to catalog new music, with a dash of soul-seeking, politics, and what it takes to be a domesticated family man in the post-modern world - seeking laughter and human connection. Movable Type 4.2-en moondance tag:www.uberbrain.com,2008:/tufk1d//31.8680 2008-10-09T05:34:50Z 2008-10-09T06:11:55Z in attempting to define my own personhood, i have followed many trends throughout my life. it is my hope that my own accumulation of cultural materialism and ethos which help establish my own caricature. i'm old enough to not try... tufk1d in attempting to define my own personhood, i have followed many trends throughout my life. it is my hope that my own accumulation of cultural materialism and ethos which help establish my own caricature. i'm old enough to not try to so hard to display my feathers and jaded enough to know that the true merit of character has little to do with how one appears. most people are too worried about how they appear to worry about how you appear, and yet we all get stuck in a vortex of doubt that our mediocrity is too pervasive.

at times, this worry overwhelms me and pushes me to try harder, not for competition - but to rather better myself...so that that particular individual would accept me, if i ever met them. many of those individuals are within the links to the left...yea, right over there. (that would have confused my girls - hahaha - left or right, daddy? which is often followed by an uproar of my laughter, because i'm thinking how correct they are to ask that question)

but at this point in my l1fe, i've not quite beaten mediocrity and i have a living evidence of proof, because eugene hutz is alive and well and i'm going to see him tomorrow night at the showbox sodo. i can't believe my affluent fortune that has allowed me to witness this greatness. prepared to be updated, fuck-Os!!! truly the greatest living force of punk rock in the last 25 years, he emodies the cultural evolution of punk rock. (but i swear by this, if that mutherfucker turns to heroin - game over.) he does political punk better then jello. he does acerbic humorous punk better than dead milkmen. he is more of a musician than the pixies. he is more of a philosopher than rollins. he's more energetic than iggy. he's no el duce or gg, but thank the Ethereal Madness for that. and to top it off, he's got dancers. and if you were into marketing, he actually has a purchasable marketable uniform, which i'm sure the kids will be adorned with tomorrow evening.

but like i said, if he goes to heroin - that's it!! humanity will have lost one more hopeful idealist!


title: tat2s - not just for whores and sailors
medium: prismacolor eraseable pencils, sketching on the bus, and then used an extra fine sharpie pen and inked it on the bus
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]]> yer so bad tag:www.uberbrain.com,2008:/tufk1d//31.8677 2008-10-01T05:09:12Z 2008-10-01T07:11:30Z confused...lost...scared & angry. this is how my wife describes me as i wake up - she says that for the first 15 minutes of the day, those looks are all combined into my morning face. oddly enough, i don't feel... tufk1d confused...lost...scared & angry.

this is how my wife describes me as i wake up - she says that for the first 15 minutes of the day, those looks are all combined into my morning face. oddly enough, i don't feel like that in the morning - it just that waking up is hard to do. but that's prolly because going to sleep is even harder.

so because i'm a cheap bastard - i got a cheap sketchbook and the paper is too small and the quality sucks - it's like computer paper. but at least, i had $5 to buy that POS sketchbook - times have been worse and they're only getting better. maybe one day i can afford bristol paper, but that will prolly be a long way off.

here's what i did today - inked this on the bus, it's not great, it would've been better had i just inked it sitting in a motionless chair, but where's the fun in that?!? besides inking on the bus, even with the little screw-ups, make me think that i'm learning more control of my pens, so hopefully that's fucking true - but yea, we'll see.


title: inked geisha
medium: prismacolor eraseable pencils, sketching on the bus, and then used an extra fine sharpie pen and inked it on the bus
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]]> i walk the thinnest line tag:www.uberbrain.com,2008:/tufk1d//31.8675 2008-09-13T16:47:10Z 2008-09-13T17:33:23Z i finished my first sketchbook this week - i had attempted to fill many sketchbooks throughout life, but never before have i filled every page in the book until this week - i can check off that little goal. now... tufk1d i finished my first sketchbook this week - i had attempted to fill many sketchbooks throughout life, but never before have i filled every page in the book until this week - i can check off that little goal. now waiting for payday to start a new one. and in my own humbled opinion, the last entry is the best in the book, giving me a little evidence that progress is being made. which is all that i can really hope for - making the current drawing better than the one before, making this day rawk a little harder than the day before.

currently recording beezlebubba, the dead milkmen cover and tribute band.


title: 420 hunny
medium: prismacolor eraseable pencils, sketching on the bus
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]]> start wearing purple tag:www.uberbrain.com,2008:/tufk1d//31.8319 2008-06-27T03:15:40Z 2008-06-27T03:32:44Z i've soaked in the entire catalog of gogol bordello and perhaps you've already heard me say this, but i truly feel that every genre and every band that i've ever been into has led me to this great band. they... tufk1d i've soaked in the entire catalog of gogol bordello and perhaps you've already heard me say this, but i truly feel that every genre and every band that i've ever been into has led me to this great band. they are exactly what i've been searching for the past few years. it's anarcho, it's gypsy culture, it's controlled chaos (even tho, at moments, you feel as if there's no control whatsoever - which is part of eugene hutz' genius), it's traditional folk, it's philosophical, it's fuckin' gypsy punk rock, ladies and gentlemen. and i am sold on it.

so, while i was finishing up this drawing this morning, dude from the back seat taps me and says, "hey, man - you got a business card?"
"no. why?"
"i really like that. i'd love to see what you can do with our main character for a comic that my partner and i are working on. would you be interested in giving us some sketches of this character?"
"what's the comic about?"
"well, this character is the main character and she's the goddess of all energy."
"you got a comic and you don't have the main character sketched out?"
"yea, every other character is worked out with sketches and character descriptions, but her - i don't like my partner's drawings of the girl."
"ya, here's my number. my name's lonnie moon. i'd be interested in learning more about that project. just call me."

i put my headphones back on and continued drawing.


title: gypsy punk rock girl
medium: prismacolor eraseable pencils, sketching on the bus
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]]> music that tears itself apart tag:www.uberbrain.com,2008:/tufk1d//31.8317 2008-06-26T05:06:47Z 2008-06-26T05:25:58Z so, because i draw on the bus, i get into the strangest conversations with the strangest of people. as i was drawing this today, a tall lanky kid was double bass drumming loudly at the back seat. i watched his... tufk1d so, because i draw on the bus, i get into the strangest conversations with the strangest of people. as i was drawing this today, a tall lanky kid was double bass drumming loudly at the back seat. i watched his feet for a minute to see if his "beat" synced with my headphones, which it did not. i went back to drawing and listening to jason webley.

a few minutes later, i look over at the heavily tattooed drummer boy - and with eye contact the conversation began. "hey, man - that looks fuckin' rad." "thanks. you in a band?" "no, but i'm jamming with people, ya know? i just jammed with mike starr (of alice in chains)." "wow, that's pretty rare." "yea, i met him in jail and when we got out, we jammed. he's back in again, but when he gets out, we've already got some studio time, so..." "jesus - that's pretty cool." and i go back to drawing.

i never know when to believe people. part of me wants to believe the stories like these, just because they are great stories. but i'm highly suspicious. just like the old fat dude in his 40's that looked geeked out on crack telling me that he used to sk8 with jay adams, while i was waiting for the bus just holding my longboard. meh - believe it all to a certain point, just don't take it too serious.


title: gypsy girl next door
medium: prismacolor eraseable pencils, sketching on the bus
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]]> dirty harry tag:www.uberbrain.com,2007:/tufk1d//31.4722 2007-07-24T15:26:40Z 2007-07-24T16:02:23Z gorillaz' 'demon days' is an album that kinda defies the RIAA logic - meaning, that their follow-up album is actually better than their first album. which is saying a lot, 'cuz their first album had del tha funkee homosapien and... tufk1d gorillaz' 'demon days' is an album that kinda defies the RIAA logic - meaning, that their follow-up album is actually better than their first album. which is saying a lot, 'cuz their first album had del tha funkee homosapien and very few flow like del. he's got a smoothness that can jazz you down, but also hip-hop your ass into a jam.

so, as i was walking home on sunday, i got shot in the face with either a rubber pellet (which are actually hard to come by, since they are police issue) or a paintball pellet that didn't explode. i had my headphones on listening to aesop rock and was really into the music, which could prolly be heard outside of the headphones. all of a sudden, something slams into my nose and it feels like a rock. as i instantly buckle to the ground, my headphones are thrown to the ground and i hear some kids scream "OH, SHIT YEA!" and "man, you got that muthafucka RIGHT in HIS FACE! HAHAHAHA!" i check to see if i'm bleeding and i am, so i grabbed the nearest rock and started to run after the car, but by the time that i can throw the rock - they take a left and are gone. i walked around aimlessly pissed - i mean, i was in the RED - and i could only think about slamming a dude's head into his black honda accord. for a second, right after i was hit, i thought - so, this is what a drive-by would feel like, you'd be minding your own business when all of sudden, a sharp pain would just knock you on your ass.

gawd, i wanted to kill a muthafucka that night - thankfully, my friend, daniel, had come up from portland. i hadn't seen him in so long that it made the whole horrible day of events just slip away. thank you, deej!

so these two tattoos are the great representations of tacoma - a working class town that demoralizes you, knocks you on your ass before you've ever gotten an opportunity to stand on your own two feet. gawd, i can't wait to leave tacoma forever.

title: eastside is a muthafucka
medium: marty


title: marty jr.
medium: marty

]]> i know there's an answer tag:www.uberbrain.com,2007:/tufk1d//31.4719 2007-07-20T07:09:07Z 2007-07-20T15:55:25Z every 3rd thursday is the art walk in tacoma, which is our one night that t-town celebrates culture. during my daily incessant websearching for free cultural events in tacoma, i had found a website called Tacoma Then and Now a... tufk1d every 3rd thursday is the art walk in tacoma, which is our one night that t-town celebrates culture. during my daily incessant websearching for free cultural events in tacoma, i had found a website called Tacoma Then and Now a few weeks ago. a photographer named stephen cysewski went through downtown tacoma in 1979 and captured the gritty direness of the working class town. my family moved to puyallup in 1979 and my mom worked in hilltop at st. jo's hospital, and when you got off on the 15th st. exit, you bloody well knew that you were in tacoma. the word even sounded dirty back then, even tho it's a great word - it was the original name for mt. rainier by the indigenous folks.

anyway, this group is retracing the original photographer's steps capturing the burgeoning cultural renaissance that tacoma is trying to muster the nuts to experience. the photographs are very cool, but the idea is just great - i loved it that they're just doing it for themselves, even though the city council should prolly award them some marketing contract, 'cuz it's exactly what tacoma needs.

so i went to the rampart gallery to help them set up and meet gordon swetland. that was fun and while i was there, i met the rampart's owner, steve craig. i hadn't been at the gallery in years and i really dug their changes - they have some pretty amazing art there and all tacoman. gordon gave me a picture of his that is the logo for the 'flying boots cafe', which is a long-time eastside eatery - just for helping out, so it was a great day all around. the picture went up in the kitchen, it replaced the frank sinatra family photo, which has been a staple kitchen display for FAR too long and now it's retired.

sketch of the day: it's the first true draft of this idea. it's taken for months, 'cuz i didn't have a light table, which i now have. so i remember seeing the stencil girl blowing her brains out and the blood turns to butterflies. i've also seen it where the blood turns into hearts - it's becoming quite the popular tattoo, as well. but i wanted a personal twist on it - now this was a tattoo design for my right leg - it may very well be a painting i do later. if it turns into a painting, then it'll be in ron english style.

instead of butterflies or hearts, i wanted mine to gadflies. socrates was the original gadfly - the OG of social philosophers that questioned the belief system that dominated the times. he was referred to being like a gadfly in plato's writing and that always stuck with me. he was a gnat that the powerful elite couldn't silence, but what they found more infuriating is that they couldn't answer his questions. he would twist and turn their words around, questioning their intentions into circular logical statements that were the exact opposite of their original contention - haw haw!

so, all the other gents caricatured onto gadfly bodies are: rene descartes, max weber, bill hicks, noam chomsky, michel foucault, and r. buckminster fuller.


title: gadflies of our souls WIP
medium: black ink on comic book paper

song of the day: "i know there's an answer" by brian wilson backed up by the beach boys. brian wilson is a GE-nius and mike love can eat it. if you've never listened to pet sounds, then you're not living correctly. wake up, your life is passing you by - don't make me read wilhem reich's 'listen, little man' to you. seriously, pet sounds is one of the top 25 albums of all-time - all-fuckin'-time, that means a lot.

]]> when i'm sixty-four tag:www.uberbrain.com,2007:/tufk1d//31.4718 2007-07-18T15:27:08Z 2007-07-20T07:54:17Z i remember the first time that i listened to the beatles song from their sgt. pepper album. unfortunately, my parents didn't have the later beatles, they only had the vinyl of the beatles from their early times, which is unfortunate,... tufk1d i remember the first time that i listened to the beatles song from their sgt. pepper album. unfortunately, my parents didn't have the later beatles, they only had the vinyl of the beatles from their early times, which is unfortunate, since most of the beatles best work was produced in the last three albums. as matter of fact, i think john lennon's best work was when he was solo, towards the latter part of his life. his work was more soulful, it was more introspective and the power of john lennon was that he was writing how the collective unconscious was feeling, whether it was an intentional facade to sell more records - i don't know, but he did it well.

the song was the opening theme to "the world according to garp." which is a great john irving book, by the way, that details the odd life of one man from childhood to manhood. i read that book about 3 times during my adolescence. and as an adult, ts garp finds that his mother houses a group of man-hating women. of course, he feels guilty and then rageful to have to feel guilty for all the men in the world. of course, those women had many reasons for their gender specific hatred; most of them were abused, either sexually, physically, or mentally, when they were either children or adults. as a child, i saw many women that hated men too, because their husbands either abused them or neglected them. and i thought, 'man, i'm gonna be a nice guy, so that my wife never feels that way about me.'

but then, i have to wonder - what is a nice guy? the guy who finishes last? the guy who gets walked over? perhaps it's a man that rarely, or ever, gets his desires fulfilled because he must sacrifice them for the happiness of his wife? maybe the man-hating is a stage of women, developed by oprah and the lifetime network, during their 30s? maybe the man-hating has more to do with their own worldview? i have no idea, but i wish that i had the cure. sometimes, living in a house full of girls, i feel like ts garp.

"will you still feed me,
will you still need me,
when i'm sixty-four?"

no? yea, i didn't think so.

i drew this skull and rose in less than 2 hours, which gives me hope, 'cuz years ago, it would've taken me days to complete this very easy drawing. i still like it, tho - and the prismacolor blending marker makes the colors bleed together in the easiest fashion. gawd, i love that pen.

title: skully rose
medium: prismacolor pencils on cheap sketchbook paper

]]> groove is in the heart tag:www.uberbrain.com,2007:/tufk1d//31.4716 2007-07-16T05:13:03Z 2007-07-16T05:33:03Z today was a good day. you might think that i should have used that song as the title of this post, but today was a good day 'cuz of the groove of the day. the groove has been following me... tufk1d today was a good day. you might think that i should have used that song as the title of this post, but today was a good day 'cuz of the groove of the day. the groove has been following me for a couple of days now - i feel really confident and i feel good about my path in Life. my girls inspire me to be a better man and a better human. still trying to quit smoking, said as he paused for one last long drawl of the cancer stick.

so, from conception to design to application of this tattoo was less than two weeks. i'm really proud of how it came out. and apparently, so is the client and her boyfriend. skylar and christina also tattoo out of their home, so i wanted it to be good. well, i was shooting for great, and am really happy with the results. like i said, i felt really calm and really confident and christina was very cool about my whole process - i just can't wait to color it.


title: yosemite nina pin-up outline
medium: christina "yosemite nina"

like i said, really happy at the turnout of this tattoo and the turnout of corieann's hair and i have another drawing that i added to my portfolio - i'll post it at a later date - but everything is going really well in life, at least, in the artistic part of life. and sometimes that's all you got - your dreams and the process of making them come true.

]]> birdhouse in your soul tag:www.uberbrain.com,2007:/tufk1d//31.4714 2007-07-12T15:16:07Z 2007-07-13T15:52:15Z so last night, sofia blew my mind. she exhibited transpersonal differentiation. she mocked me. so that means that she put herself in my shoes and pretended to be me. it was hilarious. we were playing in her kiddie pool and... tufk1d so last night, sofia blew my mind. she exhibited transpersonal differentiation. she mocked me. so that means that she put herself in my shoes and pretended to be me. it was hilarious. we were playing in her kiddie pool and i said, "i need some water." and dumped a bucket on my head. she then copied that in my voice - she lowered her pip-squeak voice as low as she could and repeated my words and then dumped water on her head. she got a little carried away with it, 'cuz i was laughing so hard. and ended up saying 'asshole' in my voice. she then looked at my stern face and gasped, "sorry, daddy. sorry!"

i'm done with smoking - it's the best decision of my life. i had an epiphany the other night "if you quit these, all of your dreams will come true." cigarettes have been holding me back, 'cuz they take up my money and my time. i need to continue my focus to only three areas of my life - work, tattooing, and family.

so i don't have a sketch for today, but we cut corieann's hair after tattooing miguel last night. we're working on covering up some tribal work on his arm - and then we'll apply the same design on his other arm, and then we're gonna put a futuristic mercenary (like trinity from the matrix) on his leg. teh raddest part is that we're trading all this tattoo work for dental hook-ups. he's a technician that works out of his home for local dentists and we're trading corieann's dental work for tattoos. i love that tattooing is a barter industry.

i've been cutting men's hair since i was in the marines, but hookin' up a fade or cutting hair with some shavers is way different than cutting a female's hair with scissors. this seriously took us until 1:30 in the morning, having started at 11:15 - so, corieann just rocks that she was that patient with me. she colored it yesterday and she wanted a punky bob haircut. we're really happy with it.


title: the cherry BOmB
medium: corieann

]]> move me tag:www.uberbrain.com,2007:/tufk1d//31.4711 2007-07-07T10:18:15Z 2007-07-08T00:54:08Z so, it's almost 3:30am - but i finished this design from conception to finish in less than 14 hours. pretty proud of that and will sleep soundly tonight - i'm sure of that. title: yosemite nina medium: prismacolor pencils on... tufk1d so, it's almost 3:30am - but i finished this design from conception to finish in less than 14 hours. pretty proud of that and will sleep soundly tonight - i'm sure of that.


title: yosemite nina
medium: prismacolor pencils on tracing paper.

it titled, yosemita nina, because a friend asked me for a tattoo design - i think this might work better as promotional purposes, but if she likes it, i'm sure we could tattoo it. we'll see what she says.

song of the day: "move me" by screamin' jay hawkins. the original punk bluesman. ladies and gentlemen, most people records songs about love, heartbreak, loneliness, being broke. no one has ever recorded about real pain. screamin jay did - he wrote "constipation blues." great blues, if you can stomach his realistic reliving of his most constipated moment. thankfully, he gets it out in the end. "move me" doesn't have that same bathroom-y feel, it's more for the bedroom, 'cuz its the fuckin' groove.

]]> last trumpet tag:www.uberbrain.com,2007:/tufk1d//31.4707 2007-07-04T04:33:26Z 2007-07-04T06:20:18Z during the hiatus of hangin' at the tattoo shop, i've been working on corieann's halloween themed full sleeve. i gotta admit that you can definitely tell the difference of before and after. i realize that i only hung out there... tufk1d during the hiatus of hangin' at the tattoo shop, i've been working on corieann's halloween themed full sleeve. i gotta admit that you can definitely tell the difference of before and after. i realize that i only hung out there for a few days, but i can tell an improvement. i feel WAY more confident - more secure in my abilities, really. humble confidence?!? is there truly such a thing? it would be rad to be a great artist and still humble as shit - but i don't find that very often. i mean, you scratchin' and survivin' on your art out there and it grizzles ya. unfortunately, i'm not speaking from experience, purely hypothetical justification for not bein' humble.

i saw r.r.anderson on the street today. i had just got off the light link rail at freighthouse square and there he was with his wife, waiting to get on the trolley.

"are you r.r. anderson?"
suspiciously, " ye-es."
"o, man - you're a fuckin' great artist. i love your shit, man. keep up the good work! thank you sooo much!"
i look at his wife, who is kinda blushing. i shake his hand.
"um...thanks." i crossed the street into freighthouse square.

i was walking up the mckinley hill when a friend stopped and offered me a ride. she could prolly tell it was hot, since my balls were hanging 19" from their usual resting place. so i relayed the recent event of meeting r.r. anderson and she said - "he prolly thinks that you're a crazy man!"
"why??"
"because you just ran across the street after saying all that. hahahahah- - you are crazy! maybe he would've liked to talked to you."
"really? hmm."

hmmm...perhaps, but i just didn't think that he would have the time to just talk to the likes of me. but come to think of it, they looked like they were on a leisurely stroll. but it's just my first inclination to believe that someone who i'm a fan of must be WAY busier than i am and is out there seeking opportunities to meet their own heroes.

i am a fan of this guy, tho - 'cuz not only is he a great illustrator, but he has great political wit AND has his ears on the political scene of tacoma - great ink renderings of tom stanger and bill baarsma. anyone else even remotely reading this just asked themselves, "Who the fuck are they?" exactly - that's my point, he knows and so do i. it's not all just art and music over here at tufk1d tattoo, ok! we got politics and stuff, man! i just don't think anyone wants to read my opining whining. seriously, you gotta check out his website - it's just great web design. the flash on it is awesome - it doesn't obtrusively bog down your processor and still looks dazzlingly hi-tech. plus, he's got this great minimalist, existentialist, DIY vibe goin' and that's just RAD as shit, man.

i will say this - he's one of the few people that i've come across in t-town that gives me hope of a burgeoning renaissance. or maybe i'm just believing the hype of the weekly volcano and the tacoma weekly. tacoma has that effect on you - mostly, it lets you down a lot. remember the rocket? yea, see! especially when you get into the politics of this town - it's damn disheartening when you hear about the horrible deals that the city has made in the past, which are long-standing contractual agreements that really restrict the ability for this town to do anything remotely fuckin' cool until 2021. but there are some great shops that are at least, selling us the idea that we got some culture, such as the what? shoppe, flaming dragon tattoo, hell's kitchen, wait - they closed the kultur lab, didn't they? fuck, see!

man, i miss danny purcell. deej - if you come across this, write me.

so i realize this entry is too late for father's day - but if i haven't said this before - this idea came to me while skating at ben's mini-ramp. my brother steve and i were talking tattoo ideas and the kids were screaming and i said, "i'm gonna tattoo a wire hanger with a leather belt that says, 'dad of the year' on it....GET OFF THE GODDAMNED SHED!"

title: dad of the year
medium: prismacolor pencils on some heavy brown paper (it came with the draftsmen table that corieann got for me for dad's day

corieann, you're the greatest, dude! i love you soooo much.

song of the day: last trumpet by lyrics born with lateef. just get it and jam the fuck out on it - seriously, get it somehow. later that day is a serious contender for best album of the decade. i'm so glad i have that on vinyl - o, man. if you are gonna buy it, you should actually buy it from quannum records or your local independent record store.

]]> borderline tag:www.uberbrain.com,2007:/tufk1d//31.4703 2007-06-27T06:21:19Z 2007-06-27T06:21:38Z i've never understood borders. as a kid, i'd look at the maps and ask, "why? why did they choose that straight line and this curvy line here to declare a state or statehood?" and most adults would tell me -... tufk1d i've never understood borders. as a kid, i'd look at the maps and ask, "why? why did they choose that straight line and this curvy line here to declare a state or statehood?" and most adults would tell me - "well, that's the how the borders are." no, doi - but isn't there some record as to WHY they chose that configuration to call rhode island?

"alright, gents, - we got lots of land heading west - you sure you guys don't want some more land?"

"nah, we're good with our 1200 square miles." i hear peter griffin's voice when i say the retort - prolly 'cuz family guy is set in quahog, rhode island. fictional town, but i still imagine most people there sound like peter.

borders seemed absurd and they still do - i've just come to live with them.


title: 4th of july sketchings
medium: red prismacolor col-erase pencil on #20 white paper

here's a 4th of july themed sketch of flash that i'm trying to do before the 4th. i didn't want it to be patriotic, rather cultural - 'cuz really, i have a respect for the environment that i was raised in - washington state. but i feel no affinity to the state or the country that it resides in. i mean, culturally, i'm an american, but i have no respect for the actions and practices of america - most of it is devilishly brutal, in humanistic terms.

besides, it's criminal that this country doesn't have universal health and dental care - i realize that we're fed the bullshit that we are getting the world's top-notch care, ergo we must pay the world's top-notch expense for it - it's horseshit. our qualitative level of care is rapidly declining on the global and while most other 1st world nations take care of their people's health and welfare - we have tens of millions of people without. given the wealth of this nation, that shit is criminal. and we're to blame, 'cuz we fall for Their bullshit.

]]> turbonegro must be destroyed tag:www.uberbrain.com,2007:/tufk1d//31.4701 2007-06-25T06:06:50Z 2007-06-25T06:54:20Z so, really been drawing and workin' on the JAMZ mixdisc. i've got the first 13 minutes together and it fuckin' JIMMY JAMZ. i got to finish this bathtime themed flash today, but i didn't get to finish the geisha watercolor... tufk1d so, really been drawing and workin' on the JAMZ mixdisc. i've got the first 13 minutes together and it fuckin' JIMMY JAMZ. i got to finish this bathtime themed flash today, but i didn't get to finish the geisha watercolor nor the other themed flash that i was working on today.


title: bathtime flash
medium: prismacolor pencils and ultra fine point sharpie on free brown wrapping paper

yesterday, amber, corieann, and i went to gay pride and watched LD and her pretty pretties - fuckin' rocked, except we missed over half of the show. john was a no-show, but i foresaw that. then, that night, went to watch the rotten apples, and stumbled across jet city fix, which was just great rock'n'roll and hadn't heard of beforehand. the lead guitarist was rockin like dokken. it was just great to be at a show and to hear a new band that rocked the place that hard - it makes you feel like you're cool, 'cuz you're hearing them before the world hears them and homogenizing them and buys out their creative juices.


title: LD and her Pretty Pretties
medium: minolta Dimage Z1 camera and photoshop cs2

i only have 1,711 mp3s left that i have to order in the music genome folder, and then to the process of cleaning out duplicates - i should be done by end of the year. and that will be a great accomplishment, and perhaps an aincentive to start getting new music. and of course, backing up the drive on an external 1Tb drive would be ideal, but will prolly settle for something way cheaper.

]]> untitled by various artist tag:www.uberbrain.com,2007:/tufk1d//31.4700 2007-06-22T06:25:18Z 2007-06-22T06:43:51Z unfortunate news - apparently, there was some kind of robbery at the tattoo shop or some things are missing, so the shop owner doesn't want anyone hangin' around the shop. which i can completely understand, logically. but emotionally, it's pretty... tufk1d unfortunate news - apparently, there was some kind of robbery at the tattoo shop or some things are missing, so the shop owner doesn't want anyone hangin' around the shop. which i can completely understand, logically. but emotionally, it's pretty crushing, 'cuz now i'm back to square one. i just hope that dude doesn't think that i did that shit - i'm a strict humanist - i don't steal from people, especially people that i'm trying to impress. i might steal a pen from fred meyer's, but that's fred meyers and they charge too much for a good pen, anyway.

so, FUCK!.......dude.

i will say this - i did get more confidence from this whole experience and that's worth a lot. just hearing some compliments from those guys - those guys with that kind of caliber of artistry - makes me feel that i should just start shopping my art around in t-town and gain an apprenticeship on my own. at least, start asking fools what i should do to get an apprenticeship in t-town. so, i plan on visiting flaming dragon and tsunami tattoo - both very respectable and both on the street where i live, just across town.

a little broken-hearted and disappointed - but it's just a setback and it seems that i never take the easy road to anything, but i still fuckin' get there - i'm usually just later than the rest of the party. i'm a firm believer that if you want to do something, make it a goal and opportunities will arise - they just do. subconsciously, you're driving yourself down the path that you seek, even tho, it may seem like forever.

no sketch today.
no song today.

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