Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Today is today…. Not bad not overly fantastic.
Just today….
The music however is great: Shiny Toy Guns: Rainy Monday.

Sleep wasn’t my friend last night and I ended up getting out of bed at 4:15am and working on a drawing. I'm nearly finished with it but I'm so excited about it I am posting a portion of it now.



Last night's chicken tacos were the bees knees. So tasty.
For part of an early b/d present my friend gave me among other cool things a stress ball shaped as a gray shark. I’ve named him Bliskett and he now lives on my desk.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

I'm not entirely sure I have anything intelligent to say today.
My mind seems to be somewhere else dreaming of photos to take, drawings to draw, swinging on swingsets etc and so forth.

I watched Raging Sharks last night. It was so bad it should have hurt. You know it's a bad film when a SHARK movie starts off w/ two aliens gurbling alien languages and shooting cold fusion crystals into the earth's atmostphere; or when the sharks literally growl like lions. It was so so bad.......

postsecret.com had some wonderful secrets today.
I like this tidbit of advice I found posted today:

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

-anonymous-

Things that pretty much rock:

Me getting tacos for dinner

interesting vampire drawing ideas - 1/2 done... kind of....

my gray cardigan that I sometimes wear to work but looks much better w/ faded jeans and a vintage tshirt.

my vintage gray care bears tshirt

lemon cheesecake chapstick that my sister makes.

a particular punky edgy look

interesting and fabulous photographs of converse. I love converse and I love these photos. I've had these photos (found on photobucket of course) saved for years now. I just think something so simple is just ingenious.





My all time favorite converse photo ever ever ever:



A collage I put together mixed w/ photos I found and some photos I took myself:

Monday, May 17, 2010

Manic Monday

There is tiredness in the air along with rain and humidity.

I blame 2 things: this weather. It makes me want to curl up on the couch with a good movie or curl up for a nap. Waking up at 2:30 am and having a hell of a time getting back to sleep.



I'm contemplating a line written by a fellow art blogger:

We are all sitting underneath the very same night sky.

It's a powerful line if you really think about it. We're all looking at the same moon, the same sky.

No matter what differences, joys, sadnesses, problems we all may have, we have that one thing in common. It's powerful to me.



Saturday was the vampire movie marathon on SyFy. All week I was filled with excitement for this. I was rather disappointed. Granted, the first movie, The Dark Prince - Story of Vlad Dracula was really interesting and I admit I enjoyed that one a great deal. If there's any truth to the story, I don't really see how he was that awful of a person. Yes he was incredibly brutal in battle. So was Willilam Wallace. Yet he was avenging his family. He was lifting the Turkish oppression off of Romania. You do what you have to do in those situations. I find his story rather fascinating in fact and would love to research it a great deal.



Sunday was thunderstorms - nothing awful and horrific, just that perfect afternoon thundershower. Rumbles of thunder and rain. those I like. Perfect for oversized pajamas, a good movie on tv (yesterday was Bridge to Terebithia) and drawings. I finished one drawing that I'm rather fond of in it's humorous state.



I've also pulled out an abstract I'd started back in April and am working on the colors again. I feel much better about the progress this time around.

I have also found that when it comes to 'crush' if I send musings and ramblings there will be no response however if I send direct questions I will get a response. That has to be a guy thing....
I can't help but wonder what he'd say if I asked him out for coffee. I don't believe I've gotten enough nerve yet to do so.

I've come across some fantastic 'rock opera' music by Nightwish that I feel the whole world should listen to. It's amazing. It's indescribable. I love it.

My last note is this: no matter where you are, what time of day it is whether it's in the middle of the pastor's sermon, church announcements, or 2:30 on a Sunday afternoon: Have some freakin common courtesy. It's very hard to focus on the sermon and get something out of it when the people behind you talk nearly the whole time. It's rather annoying when someone parks at the neighbors' house keeping the music on w/ that bass so loud it shakes your house windows (especially when you're trying to nap). Common courtesy people - try it!!!!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

009 Sound System - "Speak to Angels"

You know how no one can "prove" the Loch Ness Monster really exists? Why not, when the next sighting occurs, someone jump right in the water and then they can really see what it is. And if that person comes back up alive and not eaten, then we'll have proof. OR maybe it'll really jump out of the water to catch the new food - the person that jumped in. While very risky, I think it's worth persuing.


Thursday Things

I love this commercial; it cracks me up and sadly enough.... on a smaller scale as a smoker I have felt that way.



Today is a good day for a things that are awesome and make me happy kind of day.
Punk music - today it's Warped Tour 2003 - Glasswar - NOFX
Tattoos - fleshly decoration.
movies that make you laugh so hard you literally spit your drink out of your nose.
drawing, creating alternative scenes and universes, and montsters...





Pants that fit and flow.
The Syfy Vampire Movie marathon this coming Saturday - I just can barely contain my excitement.

All books by SARK

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

simplistic beauty can be found anywhere:





stuck on the edge
sharp dark wet
threatening to swallow
swallow whole
can't breathe
can't see
fingers groping for something tangible
feet shuffling awkwardly into walls
dark ooze of blood in my ears
metallic in my mouth
searching the corners of the earth
for signs and symbols; for truths and realizations
staring them in the face with blind eyes.
BeB
5-4-10

Sincerely Me

words

Words for the day:

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking – Robert Schuller

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

I don’t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.

My very own quote: when you feel blue, listen to Metric and draw sea turtles.