been awhile.
i'm suprised my lj is still here. somebody told my that myspace accidentally sat on it and it got shmooshed.
making plans to leave rapid city again. looking at moving to minneapolis to go to culinary school.
i was planning on leaving nov 1st, but now its pushed back to dec, or more likely spring. 

bleh. bored.

life is hectic, and I don't know where to begin.

My main bitch right now is that the day after my son was born, I was laid off from work. The boss said there wouldn't be any more work until the middle of august and "hell give me a call". Bullshit, he did the same damn thing to Max just after his kid was born. Production went down a little, and instead of him taking it in the ass he made us take a week off, so Max went to colorado to work for his folks for the week, and when he came back production was up, but Pat kept telling him, "we'll call you if we need you" even though the rest of us were working 10 hour days and he hired someone new to do max's job. I'm pretty sure he's already got someone in there doing my job. 
      Not that I really want to work for him after seeing this shit, but its nice to be employed when you have stuff that costs money like, say, a new baby.  

I'm getting better at guitar, but I haven't been painting or drawing much lately. I have been itching to write, but words haven't quite found their way to my fingertips yet. 

My baby is perfect. I love him to death. He is beautiful and soft and he grunts alot and only cries when he's hungry. However he is a newborn, and kind of boring... the mostly just sleep, eat and poop and are awake for a little while to blink and scowl at the light, which is cute... but only for awhile. I can't wait until he gets a little older and starts getting into trouble.  Then my short attention span will be more appreciative of the little changeling.

I'm exhausted.

Hey. New artwork up. Go look and see.
http://elcal.deviantart.com/

And stuff.
Car is out of commission. Resorting to the half-assed mass transit in this town.
Listening to rancid. and rasputina. and the dead milkmen. and tom waits. and bad livers. 
I tried to spray hairspray on my newest painting to lock the ink, but what I grabbed was not hairspray, it was some sort of "sleekeningizer" that doesn't dry. Just some sort of oil in a spray bottle. I wonder what will happen to my painting? So far it seems only to have darkened the overall tone of the peice, which is good. It may have done to the canvas what I had to accomplish via photoshop before.  I had to turn the brightness down and the contrast up a little, because it seemed a little washed out.

I heart alex borstein in the fucking face and you should too. 

Happy Zombie Day to those out there who, y'know.  I'm depressed because I should be dying easter eggs and watching cheesy zombie flix today. Instead I'm going to go to a mexican buffet fiesta thing.

I was on the news today.

current mood: blah

In a world plagued by hellspawn....
only one man has the power to dodge.
VETERAN FAITH PRIEST
Payback. This time.....Its For Real!

Heres some pics of my band playing at Punk Rock For Puppies saturday night.

Here is me blowing fire

Dr. Kyle Frankenfuck Rockin out the axeage

Bob the Gimp, punishing the skins

Me trying to get the lyrics right on our new song

beatin ass in the pit. What you cant see in this picture is the baby we're kicking.

today was pretty good.
Mostly because I decided to eat a handful of pychedelic mushrooms and strap on headphones playing russian lessons starting at lesson 32 (i'm actually only on lesson 9) before climbing into a giant statue of liberty costume to stand on the street corner for the duration of my trip.

I'm fairly certain this is one of my defining moments.