wow the damage

since the first episode i was hooked.....woman running through the street with blood all over her

in a trenchcoat..HOW!!! WHY!!!!....it grabbed me and never let go .....the drama!....THE TWISTS.....Turns....BETRAYAL!...holy moses ... Glen Close deserves an emmy in what was an unbelievable performance as Patty Hewes. Another amazing FX drama ....i cant wait till the dvd's.

oh young people

i remember a time when that's all i did was complain about old people.....and actually i still do , but that's besides the point. Theres this young person i know who has become a good friend of mine despite the obvious age difference......I'm actually double his age..and yes before you call chris hanson of nbc i can assure you I'm more mentor and friend than anything else. For me its an actual learning experience to know someone at a time when they see themselves as an all knowing, indestructible super person. It's amusing...i remember being there at that time, and to some extent i still am..yep i haven't moved on from my adolescence yet but i will eventually when it works to my advantage..yes control freak. But this person..lets call him A......( oh I'm in such deep doodoo if this is read).......reminds me, sometimes daily, to see things from a different angle..something i think most people lose the older they get. I don't know why this happens..i think its a settling that occurs ...when your young soo much goes on that's new, high school , college, relationships, friendships...all these things that are new and exciting. Once all those experiences are had.....life slows down a bit and i think for most people i think that is the cause. The search for new and different experiences slows and maybe stops, causing stagnet thought processes..it could be as simple as a daily routine that does not change....whoch causes you not to change, and i think as humans we need a bit of change to keep us alive. So thank you youngins for keeping me changing ans especially , thank you A...for being such an A!

on the team

ok so last Friday we had a bit of a scare...i was off (oh joyous free day) and Preston took off as well and we were enjoying our morning, me drawing , Preston watching some scandalous documentary on E. The phone rang....Prestons mom got it downstairs and meekly called up for one of us to answer the phone.....it was the football coach, something had happened. For those who do not know Cortney is in football this year..which i think is awesome..hes going into 8th grade and already is taller than me..he rides his bike to practice every morning on his own ..hes really been responsable and mature about the whole thing. The coach said there was an accident and Cortney's arm was hurt, so Batman and Robin jump in the batmobile and off we go. I pull up to the practice field where the coach leads cortney to the side of the road...arm in sling wrapped in ice and bandage.
"He's still on the team" the coach says..." we tried to figure out what happened but i think someone just fell on it" he said "But he's still on the team".
We get Cortney in the car..wincing from the pain but not in tears, and Preston asks some queations" do you think its broken?"
"Oh yeah....i would say 60 % chance its broken......but hes still on the team"
ok im starting to giggle inside now cause hes crazy talkin now.
We figure out what to do about his bike and his stuff in his locker and go.
"still on the team!".....we hear faintly as we drove off.
In the car i tell him hes doing good for someone whos arm is broke...Cortney says it hurts but his cousin Jay's punches hurt more...funny.
Turns out it was just a minor fracture and he just has to wear a brace for a couple of weeks ..but no activity untill its healed which was a relief.... and hes still on the team.

Tiny scream

Well its done....after years of torment, nights of self conscience embarrasment, the pain ..the anguish..i finally got rid of the mole on my back. It was big....and it stuck out far enought to be a problem...........named my "space raisen" by some...the "source of my power" for others, i finally had enough, and made an appointment to see a dermatologist. After seeing a nurse...the girl she was training, the doctors assistant i finally saw the doctor.....or should i say Doogie Howser MD.
He looked at it and said .."yep we can take care of that".....thank god..i mean ......thats right you better bitch .
So the first nurse and her trainie came back in to numb me up....which i have no problem with ..needles are cool with me i can take the pain, yes im ok, i dont need to lie down. So the doctor enters with his assistant so now theres a "PARTY IN THE HOUSE!!!!" So now im in the room...the nurse..her trainie..the doctor...his assistant.....im kinda glad my mole is getting paris hilton like treatment.
So the doctor and his asst. proceed to ..gulp...saw it off with this tiny sterile..well... hack saw. Nope im fine, i dont need to lie down thanks just do something , chew this parasite off me already sheesh. When it was over they plopped it into a little cuppy thing to go on vacation to see if it was cancerous or whatever...they slapped some liquid on it to stop the bleeding, bandaged me up , and sent me on my way...as i walked away from the office i could have sworn there was a moment when they were sawing that i heard an almost inaudible tiny scream.

"i made a mistake"

Well this years e3 has come and gone and this year was a bit calmer..nothing really stood out, we happen to have G4 the game network this year and the aired the press conferences live , which was cool but being on the eastcoast i was up watching the microsoft press conference at 1:30 in the morning....the only thing that impressed me aboput xbox was the games..they have a lot of big name titles coming out before christmas.Nintendo has the market on innovation, the wii fit , a wierd streering wheel ..but the system is still not up to par with the next-gen consoles. Sony has some catching up to do , but their games just visually blow anything out there away..sorry microsoft but the ps3 is a monster. All this gaming has got me reminiscing about days past, i thought of a game i had not thought of ina long time..one that was a sleeper, but we all had a great time playing....This guy right here..ONE...it begins as the main character wakes up in a room...a gun now where his hand used to be....he says one thing.."i made a mistake".....THATS IT!!!! and for the rest of the game you are fighting for your life!!!! 6 levels.of jumping. running shooting CHAOS!!!!!!! it was soo much fun. who was this guy?...what was the damn mistake!!!! great game.

"One shall stand"

My childhood consisted of many things...people, places, things....but what i remember most was the weekday afternoon cartoons. As everyone who is my age or around there knows ..we had the best cartoons..hands down, from G I Joe, to Thundercats, He-Man, and more. The eighties redefined kids cartoons and became the standard for years to come....

Look at Optimus Prime there ..isnt he awesome

!!!!. The transformers opened last week and made a gagillian dollars..but who cares. For me and probably for a lot of my generation, just hearing that john wayne swaggering voice of Optimus, transformed me back to my childhood and made me giggle with glee. So the story wasnt all that..who cares, the cartoon story sucked a whole lot, but thats not what i came to see. I came to see giant flippin robots!!!..the robots i grew up with...the toys i played with and eventually broke..ahem.

That being said i loved the movie..I didnt agree with some things , but over all i think it was done right. Harry over at AICN complained about the story.....look if you want a story go see Evening..leave the robots alone. There were many references to the cartoon throughout. The old yellow vw beatle getting a smack from the updated bumblebee..great!. dialogue straight off the cartoon..it was a fun ride and it also set up more to come..oh yeah the robots were incredible..my hats off to the effects guys...but one of the best parts was a really great trailor for an untitled movie....looked amazing..youll see.

CAMP!!!!

well we did it !!!!!...we drove to silver lake michigan and took cortney to camp...sniff sniff......he will be there for three weeks and im positive he has forgotton all about his dad and I and is having a great time....

we arrived saturday night and were amazed that there was actually a desert in michigan...well they call the "the dunes"..its a huge stretch of land between lake michigan and silver lake thats all sand dunes..really cool.

Rufus Wainwright does it again!!!!

thursday morning , Preston is home sick and watching tv, im at the computer doing some drawing and listening to Rufus Wainwright's new album..."release the stars"...and i love it ...now im a big fan of his already but he has outdone himself , i think a big part of this was being the producer this time around, able to get exactly his vision directly. from "going to a town"..to" between my legs"( a personal favorite of mine) hes brilliant. In my opinion this is better than his last 2 albums, each song seems to harness his emotion and haunting vocals so well , it will be hard to top next time around, now all thats left is for him to release his judy garland concert and ill be satisfied.

pardon me what flavor?

this is my new favorite thing to do .....the berries n cream dance!!!!!!!!

How to stop an explosive show!

It has been a long journey since i watched in awe as the first episode of Heroes played out before my eyes last september, and what a journey it was. Never has a television show stirred up such a following , in myself as well as world wide. I must admit as i sit here drinking from my official heroes mug that yes i am a bit obsessed, but its worth it.

The season finale of heroes, did what i thought it would, bring the first chapter to a close, leaving us satisfied but wanting to continue our journey.The writers have crafted a real sci-fi show with actual real people, they do not behave like cartoons or comic book characters, much do the dissapointment to the immature fanboys everywhere(im a regular at the nbc messege boards so i see those fools alot).

as i await the dvds in august i recall some of the special moments...the first time we saw nathan petrelli fly..wow!..or when while watching i realized what peters ability was! as did so many, tearing up for claire and her father, knowing how much he cared for her....and for those who know...the petrelli campaign call i got just an hour before the show a couple of weeks ago....what a show...what a show.

going to try

ok im going to try to blog more only because i think i need to ......this should be an interesting weekend my long time friend sarah is graduating from case western reserve...then she is moving to california ...WOW......less than one week till the final show of heroes of the season...what will i do .

Company Man

What can i say this show just keeps getting better. Its almost painful waiting each week for the next episode but millions of us do. Company man by far was oone of the best written...it was sad, we found out a lot about claire's father and what his motivation was..i say was because i believe that his motivation changed after becoming a parent....i cant wait to find out more of HRG's story and i await the reunion with claire...hopefully next season, but i fear it wont be a pleasant reunion.

Vacation!!!!

ok so we need to go on vacation...why?..i dont know , my opinion is screw a vacation lets re-model the bathroom....or maybe the basement.....but anyway Preston needs...NEEDS.... to go on vacation during spring break when the university is off sooo where to go ...well im not feeling europe cause there is soo much of the U.S. i havent seen and florida ...no..ive been there no big deali would like us to go somewhere new....mabe out west..a little brokeback action...well actually no cause Cortney will be coming and he still under the impression im his dads best "friend"...maybe hawaii yes ill have to look into that.
Just a couple things here....the american idol kids suck big time this year....i mean really suck i dont understand the judges choices but hey people are watching.....Antoine Mitchell is going to cause more trouble on The Shield....look out!!!!.....Kingdom Hearts 2 at the end of march....and the countdown till PS3 will begin!!....

PLASMA

well first off it wasnt my idea.....I promise!!!...we were helping out a fried who needed some cash...so we bought his 42 inch plasma tv for really cheap....seriously!!!...so with this monstrosity in the house it completly disrupted the harmony that was in the living room already...but we finally got it up...designeda new living room situation....hooked up all the speakers and working...of course we needed high definition cable now so we got that and holy crap its unbelievable!!! regular tv is now garbage we are now spoiled forever.....and movies!...its sick.....on a sad note my ps2 died...so im sending it to sony to be exchanged...excuse me i must go stare at the spots on peoples faces in high definition.

the quest

well i think its time..time to find them.....time to search for the people of my past and see what they are all up to...ill keep you posted.

Brokeback Mountain

well we finally saw it ....it was our duty and part of the rules so we went on the west side of Cleveland to a place called crocker park...we went with another couple Candace and John , we love them.....Anyway it was soo cold ...earlier in the day wasnt too bad but by the time we got there it had to be 10 below......and we were hungry...but of course we got there too late....half hour wait here , forty-five minute wait there...so we ran to subway and ate quickly...ran back for the movie. The theater was packed....i was trying not to get pissy. when i go see a movie , especially one i want to see, i like to get there on time....get good seats...and watch the prievews..well ill settle for 2 out of 3.
The seats werent all that bad they were down front but it wasnt looking straight up. Now on to the review, The movie was great, other than the unrealistic saliva moment early on in the film it was pretty believable . the acting was nothing short of oscar worthy especially Heath Ledger, he became Ennis and Ennis was a torturd soul, wanting to be happy but not knowing how he never could. Jake Gyllenhall played Jack with an innocence, mixed with recklessness...he was after all a rodeo cowboy always trying to tame the ride he had gotten on but never really staying on for too long, but he kept trying and thats what mattered. Ang lee did an amzing job as always and deserves all the praise. My only complaint was that i was expecting...even hoping for a real tear jerker, maybe thats why i didnt but it didnt grab me and make me weep like i wanted it to. but all in all a wonderful movie...its a shame we still live in times of ignorance and prejudice, but im not going to get into that...anyway its a monumental picture and deserves at the very least an open mind and open heart, because no matter how you look at it its a story of love and nothing is more powerful than that.

"Happy....oh forget it"

Well the holidays have come and gone thank goodness...for some reason i was soooo stressed out this year and thats never happened before. There was a lot of uneccesary crap going on !!!!!...but all in all i had a good time.We all got what we wanted from santa..well cortney wanted some things that he couldnt have but he dealt with it. We hosted christmas...Preston and I, we cooked and entertained his entire family ..it went really well. Everyone enjoyed themselves. We made some appearences at friends houses and this past week was just a chill week , we had the boys ( cortneys cousins james and jeremy) overnight a few times which was good. But now that its all over i can try to keep a regular schedule on this blog and also try to get more work for myself...im kinda talented you know.

thanksgiving and all that stuff

Well to all those who venture here i hope you had a good thansgiving. It was a quiet day in our home , Preston and i out did ourselves with the food, we had an intimate dinner just the three of us Cortney said a prayer and we ate ...slept...ate some more then watched War of the Worlds...which i thought was excellent. Tom cruise did a great job as did evryone invovled ....spielburgh got soft in the end though ...the son should have died...but all in all a good choice for that evening.

Shadow of the Colossus

what can i sauy but wow!!!..the amazing team behind the amzing game I C O has come out with their new masterpiece....it is unrivaled in its artistic beauty and gameplay elements . you play as a young man who's love has died . To bring her back he must destroy the 16 colossi that inhabit the land, WHat a bueatiful land it is.... misty lakes sweeping hills , underground temples...green forests, its all here, but the best part are the colossi themselves. Huge is an understatement the picture here to your right is no joke...the little guy on the horse is you and you must find a way to climb your way to the weakpoints of these giants to take them down. i almost feel a bit sorry for them sometimes as they look at you with a curious innocence . ans as you stab them and they bleed and thrash around to knock you off..but the game is fantastic...my only complaint is ive beaten 7 so far and they all have been fairly easy. I hope more challenges are to come ....2 more games to buy on my ps2 before i await the ps3. kingdom hearts 2 and final fantasy 12.......oh what a great time to love games.

rodney and antonio

My friends from pittsburgh came to visit this weekend. Two of them and they arrived friday evening and stayed untill sunday evening. Now having lived with them for years when i lived in pittsburgh i must say that they havent changed a bit...which is good and bad at the same time. We ate, laughed and talked about old times, we had fun. They got a chance to see me as i live. The house, all the stuff that goes on here.It was good to see them. i have one complaint...the both of them , for some reason love to get into arguments with each other about things that they think they are both right about...so they argue like an old couple..ALL THE TIME!!! Rodney is all loud and doesnt realize it while antonio is narcoleptic but i wont tell anyone..... One thing i hope they take from visiting is to both get their acts together and start acheiving some goals....stop the get rich quick crap..and start to work torward something...you cant depend on others and watch Anime forever... one day you'll have to actually do something. On another note congrats to me for landing a job with Corgi-classics, a model company in chicago, im designing marvel superhero statues for them...and i love it .