Finished reading Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions & I'm sure others have waxed better about it than I ever could. I guess the only fitting praise I can give it is that I'm starting to read Slaughterhouse-Five & am strongly considering making him another author whose catalog I will read in full, joining: Orwell, Richard Wright, Twain, Palahniuk ( ( Read more... )

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It never fails that large doses of caffeine keep me up. It never fails that I think about everything & then stare at my ceiling around this time. What seemed to occur to me almost simultaneously, I thought about swimming across the lake & tearing up anything I've ever made. Similarly, I thought about doing everything unexpected, then about dropping ( Read more... )

I've caught up with the first season of The Venture Bros. and I have 2 & 3 downloaded, so I'll probably get through those this week. They've been pretty gravy & the only downer is that they aren't longer.

My brother's young & limited in conversation topics, but what he talks about, he really enjoys: video games, scary movies, & cartoons (and I think ( Read more... )

Feel free to click on it for the whole pic, but this is probably the best part. I basically worked on this one so that I could get it out of the way. That's a bit unseemly for me, especially since I would ask myself before I worked on something, "Would I work on this if time was not a limitation?" I had to let that go because I started applying it ( Read more... )

I went to see the Impressionists at the Kimbell this weekend & I was disappointed. They were executors of color & technique, not ideas. I went from one painting to the next, from landscape to portrait to self-portrait to landscape. I dissected each one into its process & at their best, they were simple dot-matrix prints i.e. scientific ( Read more... )

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