Watercolors. Done for the AAZK's Bowling for Rhinos charity: http://www.aazkbfr.org/
Monday, January 13, 2014
Seeking Human Kindness
Watercolors. Done for the AAZK's Bowling for Rhinos charity: http://www.aazkbfr.org/
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Favorites of 2013
Below are my favorite films and music of 2013:
Top 10 Films
1. Her
2. Secret Life of Walter Mitty
3. Fruitvale Station
4. The Way Way Back
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Kings of Summer
7. Mud
8. American Hustle
9. The Wolf of Wall Street
10. Gravity
Honorable Mentions: Anchorman 2, 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips, Short Term 12
Top 10 Albums
1. Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
2. Holly Williams - The Highway
3. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
4. HAIM - Days Gone By
5. Wild International - Lake Tones EP
6. Jake Bugg - Shangri La
7. Dessa - Parts of Speech
8. Bombino - Nomad
9. John Murry - The Graceless Age
10. The Dismemberment Plan - Uncanny Valley
Honorable Mentions: Lucius - Wildewoman, The Fratellis - We Need Medicine, The Nick Hexum Quintet - My Shadow Pages
Top 50 Songs of 2013:
1. Cold War Kids - Miracle Mile
2. Tegan and Sara - Now I'm All Messed Up
3. Wild International - Young Wayfarer
4. The National - Sea of Love
5. Grouplove - Ways To Go
6. Desaparecidos - The Left Is Right
7. Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
8. Deltron 3030 - City Rising From The Ashes (feat. Mike Patton)
9. Frank Turner - The Way I Tend To Be
10. HAIM - The Wire
11. The Emperors Of Wyoming - Avalanche Girl
12. Dessa - Call Off Your Ghost
13. NoNoNo - Pumpin Blood
14. Avicii - Wake Me Up
15. Royal Headache - Stand and Stare
16. Holly Williams - Railroads
17. David Bowie - (You Will) Set the World on Fire
18. Bombino - Imuhar
19. Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll (feat. Elton John)
20. C2C - Down The Road
21. Jason Isbell - Traveling Alone
22. Skylar Grey - Tower (Don't Look Down)
23. Booker T. - Gently (feat. Anthony Hamilton)
24. Twenty One Pilots - Holding on to You
25. CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share
26. Elton John - Home Again
27. Great White Buffalo - Thanks for Nothing
28. Lucero - Texas & Tennessee
29. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
30. Daft Punk - Contact
31. The Dismemberment Plan - Waiting
32. Editors - Honesty
33. Mavis Staples - far celestial shore
34. Anna Kendrick - Cups
35. Jake Bugg - Slumville Sunrise
36. The Fratellis - Seven Nights Seven Days
37. Bastille - Pompeii
38. The 1975 - Chocolate
39. Tony Molina - Breakin Up
40. Vieux Farka Touré - Ay Bakoy
41. Pearl Jam - Sirens
42. Paramore - Ain't It Fun
43. The Nick Hexum Quintet - A Song for Driving
44. Billy Bragg - I Ain't Got No Home
45. Capital Cities - Safe and Sound
46. Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Day
47. Kings of Leon - Coming Back Again
48. The Avett Brothers - Bring Your Love To Me
49. Superchunk - Low F
50. Garland Jeffreys - Collide The Generations
Top 10 Films
1. Her
2. Secret Life of Walter Mitty
3. Fruitvale Station
4. The Way Way Back
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Kings of Summer
7. Mud
8. American Hustle
9. The Wolf of Wall Street
10. Gravity
Honorable Mentions: Anchorman 2, 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips, Short Term 12
Top 10 Albums
1. Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
2. Holly Williams - The Highway
3. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
4. HAIM - Days Gone By
5. Wild International - Lake Tones EP
6. Jake Bugg - Shangri La
7. Dessa - Parts of Speech
8. Bombino - Nomad
9. John Murry - The Graceless Age
10. The Dismemberment Plan - Uncanny Valley
Honorable Mentions: Lucius - Wildewoman, The Fratellis - We Need Medicine, The Nick Hexum Quintet - My Shadow Pages
Top 50 Songs of 2013:
1. Cold War Kids - Miracle Mile
2. Tegan and Sara - Now I'm All Messed Up
3. Wild International - Young Wayfarer
4. The National - Sea of Love
5. Grouplove - Ways To Go
6. Desaparecidos - The Left Is Right
7. Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
8. Deltron 3030 - City Rising From The Ashes (feat. Mike Patton)
9. Frank Turner - The Way I Tend To Be
10. HAIM - The Wire
11. The Emperors Of Wyoming - Avalanche Girl
12. Dessa - Call Off Your Ghost
13. NoNoNo - Pumpin Blood
14. Avicii - Wake Me Up
15. Royal Headache - Stand and Stare
16. Holly Williams - Railroads
17. David Bowie - (You Will) Set the World on Fire
18. Bombino - Imuhar
19. Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll (feat. Elton John)
20. C2C - Down The Road
21. Jason Isbell - Traveling Alone
22. Skylar Grey - Tower (Don't Look Down)
23. Booker T. - Gently (feat. Anthony Hamilton)
24. Twenty One Pilots - Holding on to You
25. CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share
26. Elton John - Home Again
27. Great White Buffalo - Thanks for Nothing
28. Lucero - Texas & Tennessee
29. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
30. Daft Punk - Contact
31. The Dismemberment Plan - Waiting
32. Editors - Honesty
33. Mavis Staples - far celestial shore
34. Anna Kendrick - Cups
35. Jake Bugg - Slumville Sunrise
36. The Fratellis - Seven Nights Seven Days
37. Bastille - Pompeii
38. The 1975 - Chocolate
39. Tony Molina - Breakin Up
40. Vieux Farka Touré - Ay Bakoy
41. Pearl Jam - Sirens
42. Paramore - Ain't It Fun
43. The Nick Hexum Quintet - A Song for Driving
44. Billy Bragg - I Ain't Got No Home
45. Capital Cities - Safe and Sound
46. Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Day
47. Kings of Leon - Coming Back Again
48. The Avett Brothers - Bring Your Love To Me
49. Superchunk - Low F
50. Garland Jeffreys - Collide The Generations
Monday, December 2, 2013
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Sunday, July 7, 2013
pieces of "Arm Your Innocence"
Some pieces from my long in the works next painting. Little by little, getting it done.
Monday, July 1, 2013
A Subtle Destruction
Every word was a dirty bomb, used carefully and specifically for a subtle destruction. He was just weakening her foundation, getting her to the tipping point when one final blow would implode her into a fragile kneeling waterfall.
Aston remembered a time when he wasn’t brimming with such nuclear animosity. When “whore”, “bitch” and “cunt” were words and not weapons. His war with Julie was numbing him to these atrocities he should have been horrified by.
“Keep going,” she sobbed. “Rage at me! You cowardly disaster.”
He couldn’t decipher the meaning in these shots. She was firing blanks, just trying to make noise to scare him off. Whether the danger was there or not, he didn’t care if she killed him. He was an emotional terrorist. A psychological suicide bomber.
With his chin at her eye level, Aston prepared his final infiltration, reaching invisible arms deep into his esophagus to pull out the most threatening venom he could spit into her ear. “You are the greatest mistake I ever made, and I regret every minute of my life wasted near you. You don’t deserve to be loved. You deserve to live and die alone, completely miserable. As fucking miserable as you’ve made me.”
He choked on his composure and stuttered out some indecipherable gasps.
Aston’s chambers were empty. All that was left was an empty egg shell of skin, hair and smoke. If she breathed one word back to him he would have crumbled before her eyes.
But she was smart. She held her reinforcements back behind her leaking green trenches. There was no need to waste them on an enemy slinking back into the ether. The Julie War was over, and Aston let his brow shadow his face as he retreated out of the living room they had spent four years battling through. Marched through the kitchen where they had shared innumerous détentes. Out the door that had slammed too many times.
He was a nation of aggression and loss. Bluster, bombs and begrudgement. Aston knew his society of one was on the brink of collapse, and it would be a long time before his ruins would resurface. He also knew this was for the best.
Aston remembered a time when he wasn’t brimming with such nuclear animosity. When “whore”, “bitch” and “cunt” were words and not weapons. His war with Julie was numbing him to these atrocities he should have been horrified by.
“Keep going,” she sobbed. “Rage at me! You cowardly disaster.”
He couldn’t decipher the meaning in these shots. She was firing blanks, just trying to make noise to scare him off. Whether the danger was there or not, he didn’t care if she killed him. He was an emotional terrorist. A psychological suicide bomber.
With his chin at her eye level, Aston prepared his final infiltration, reaching invisible arms deep into his esophagus to pull out the most threatening venom he could spit into her ear. “You are the greatest mistake I ever made, and I regret every minute of my life wasted near you. You don’t deserve to be loved. You deserve to live and die alone, completely miserable. As fucking miserable as you’ve made me.”
He choked on his composure and stuttered out some indecipherable gasps.
Aston’s chambers were empty. All that was left was an empty egg shell of skin, hair and smoke. If she breathed one word back to him he would have crumbled before her eyes.
But she was smart. She held her reinforcements back behind her leaking green trenches. There was no need to waste them on an enemy slinking back into the ether. The Julie War was over, and Aston let his brow shadow his face as he retreated out of the living room they had spent four years battling through. Marched through the kitchen where they had shared innumerous détentes. Out the door that had slammed too many times.
He was a nation of aggression and loss. Bluster, bombs and begrudgement. Aston knew his society of one was on the brink of collapse, and it would be a long time before his ruins would resurface. He also knew this was for the best.
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