| Summer 2010 |
[Jun. 25th, 2010|10:36 am] |
Spring as expected came and went. Now it is summer and as usual it too flies by from paycheck to bill to paycheck.
Crvsr is at work on a 3 AM. It is Friday June 25th. Tomorrow is my sister's big 4-0 birthday party/extravaganza.
I have not been to her neck of the woods in so long I wonder sometimes what imaginations or feelings my young nephews must have about their uncle, the one who never visits.
I am just about to get to some painting. Crvsr and I will go to the Ghetto Beach later for a bit but then I will surely paint more when I get home.
It was tough getting out of bed this morning. I enjoyed laying there with the dogs.
This month we get a rent rebate from a referral and it is quite welcome.
I just finished reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and move on the the second book in the series. I will read at the beach today for sure. |
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| Friday June 18th 2010 |
[Jun. 18th, 2010|08:32 am] |
A sunny morning. Courvoisier watches her "crap" shows and I can hear daisy barking in the living room.
Today we will go to the beach, a rarity for me and sunblock will be the first concern.
I inked a piece for a bit while Crvsr enjoyed her guilty pleasure TV of reality shows after some Tosh.0.
I have been working at a job I refer to as Monrovia, a warehouse job where I select order material, clothes at an online distribution warehouse. I started out as a temp and am now hired by the proper company. I do not make a lot of money but it helps pay the bills.
Yesterday I went a bit crazy, running about, climbing and generally trying to make Thursday my Friday go by a bit quicker.
My main computer has been down for quite a while now and I find it funny that armoredbaby has been as well. Armoredbaby for the longest time has been hosted at the serers of Key Software, by T at the old KH. For some reason it stopped showing up and after one reset, where something was corrected, whatever was keeping it from being live has apparently returned and though I emailed T again, it still is down and now the site does not even show up in Google.
I am quite resigned about this situation, the computer, the website. PunkyBrewster has helped out by hosting marksunshine.info and I have a plan to make Armoredbaby the music site now and marksunshine.info will be for all my other endeavors, especially the display of art for sale.
Time to go and get dressed, showered etc to complete my wake-up. I have to go and renew my drivers license.
Band-wise Riotgod is preparing for the European tour 2010 and so far a few dates have been confirmed, one in Rotterdam and another in Switzerland. More can be found out here - http://reverbnation.com/riotgod. |
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| Morning train sounds, birdsong, daydreaming cat. |
[May. 26th, 2010|06:50 am] |
Quick note.
342 Up and down. Morning. Pre-Monrovia, lately amped up a bit. Imagine what you will about Mr. Artist Musician doing a job as an order-picker at a warehouse and that is fine. But this week - the rub.
The company is gaining some cheap labor and making a killing/saving mucho by having their ordinary workers ( pickers sorters etc ) take down pre-existing rack shelving at a nearby warehouse. The other warehouse is moving owing to downsizing and our proud company has swooped into get the leftovers.
It is tiresome, schlep-work. Why do I even write about it? I guess even this is worth recalling sometime. So -- I get to get up a bit later. And today -- it will be nice and hot, basted with sweat and floured with dust. So awesome.
Yesterday I was so fkn tired, those main fames of the shelves we drag into the long truck and the father we go into what is still a functioning warehouse, the longer the drag to the shipping bay. Total fkn hump work.
it would seem I am complaining, but I am not. Soon I will get up and go and just fkn do it. wtf can I say. nthng at the moment.
Last night I cam home and I was simply to god-damned bushed to do anything. Crvsr and I ate dinner out on the deck and read. She purchased a nice little table for the balcony and it was nice.
I have a hard time adjusting to the fact that my main creative computer set-up is gone, I am getting a trickle of artwork done and well, the band situation goes on at its pace. I gotta run. |
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[Mar. 26th, 2010|08:22 am] |
Into the "Ordinary Blog." Spring. Walked dogs -- B awoke after and did the feeding prep -- cat ate and ate fast and within minutes, having gorged herself, yacked up a ridiculous pile of mess on the window ledge, the dogs quick to see and dream about eating.
It is March and the hyacinth from D'Arcy, left out on the deck, has begun to bloom. We got this plant as a gift and at first had it inside the house in its initial pot. Last season I repotted it and it stayed on the porch. Once it had almost succumbed to the dry air of the apartment. As Fall approached last year, I thought it might not survive, for some silly reason. Hell, the pot is big enough and I refrained from placing it in the ground for fear of it being slaughtered by the deathscapers. I am happy to see those quickly unfurling clusters of spring green.
March 26th 2010.
I prepare to clean this cluttered desk of mine -- to do it quickly and move on. I temporarily ignored the dishes task on this damp, cool day. Friday, the one full day and night off from the Monrovian situation. B and I talked about that and talked about what to do about it... about my temporary life of less-than.
It is a bad habit of mine. I take a job that I need just to get any money, money that is needed absolutely positively yesterday, or even to supplement income and I can get lost in it. Well fuck that. And fuck this. I have a desk to clean and thngs to do with a degree of focus and consistency. Declutter -- and away!
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| The Alarm goes off |
[Mar. 11th, 2010|05:39 am] |
I have not worked on a Thursday yet. My days off were T W Th. I am not used to the dogs in the morning on work days. I went to bed early and awoke earlier than usual. I am beat, not tired per se. I am expectedly drained.
It is a rainy day today and the bulk of my days off, the first in this new monkey work schedule, will be rainy. Fine.
Last night I could not really do anything. I sat on the couch with Courvoisier and scratched away at an art piece. Yes -- finally another scratchboard piece.
Breakfast has been had and coffee has been poured and I should get to the prep of my day's grub.
I go through different emotional, silent periods at work, where songs can make me happy or fuel my anger.
I do these crazy dips using the handles of the cart each worker is provided, I do push-ups, quick sets of 30 at a time to make me feel alive while I walk around all day. Usually these are more clustered in the morning.
Work usually lets out somewhere between 2 and 3 and if we are "lucky" a bit earlier.
I work on Riotgod melodies and words at any chance that seems inspired or appropriate.
I think about Crvsr's impending trip to California. STOP. I think I should get to my food. Time escapes me on these mornings and just because I am up earlier does not mea that will be of too much benefit if I piss away the luxury.
March 2010.
5:38 am. Traffic reports CBS880. I again thought about how many hospital and treatment ads there are on CBS. Angioplasty is now available in Weschester and Rye NY, Cancer centers. |
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[Mar. 6th, 2010|05:35 am] |
Switched over to a different schedule at Monrovia -- Now it will be Sunday through Thursday. I hae some much "other work" to get to and this can stress me out entirely.
Courvoisier has left for work and it is early. I know if I were home right now I would work I say to myself, but I know I would not be up at this hour.
I have little time to write -- time flis when it comes to me getting to the job on time -- I am always there at the very last moment. Tardy no good!
I wrote down Riotgod lyric refinements while walking around yesterday and added more to the "Book." ( see here a description .) Good morning whoever.
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[Mar. 2nd, 2010|07:19 am] |
Up -- away from Monrovia and plenty to do. Tuesday morning bears the most promise, the challenge begins.
Crvsr has gotten up by now 7:15. NPR I have on the radio. News of Concepcion Chile.
Tabeeko was a feline alarm clock this morning. Even though Crvsr engaged in an emergency feeding -- that was not to be the way of quieting her down -- we all had to simply be up and out of the bedroom. The time was about 6 AM.
Well - I am off -- stooping this entry yes -- and of course off from the day job. The snow has been melting these past few days - and holy cow it is March. |
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[Feb. 20th, 2010|11:03 pm] |
Went to work today. Got out early. Found bank closed -- bank I needed to go to. But their office hours end at 1PM on Saturdays. It is 11PM now and I upon coming home had no energy to do anything. It was one of those days -- as much as I do not like them and initially feel uncomfortable with the notion -- I am OK with it now and go to bed. On a positive note, I played with the pets for a while and enjoyed it and Crvsr and I had dinner while watching bad TV.
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[Feb. 14th, 2010|10:54 pm] |
Holy shit it's 11:00 again. 11:00 PM.
other blog about art? What's to write? Who has had any time so far? At work I do these expressions that seem important for the time. I have thought about this blog.
Gonna totally do what I've been thinking -- since it ( this ) receives all those tweets too I should just make bare-bone entries.
Today I was a zombie for the beginning of work. Similar to the other day but with less anger. I just was looking at myself like some goddamned out of body experience, saying, not really in formed sentences, but emitting a consistent frequency of thought that when interpretted could be translated in short as "WTF."
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