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If I have any readers interested in looking at the pdf I just sent to syracuse here’s the link
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tb66g0
Before the Temple in Ruins 107 - 9/27
hello blog…you might as well be dead
Before the Temple in Ruins 106 -9/20
(no artwork, lost in la mancha)
a burly Merlin Before the Temple in Ruins 103, 2010
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Store Dept. Container for the first time…it’s very rare that I learn anything anymore. The hive is no longer a place of wonder, it has become commonplace and lackluster.
Before the Temple in Ruins 105 - 9/16
(no artwork, gossiping)
a burly Merlin Before the Temple in Ruins 102, 2010
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We left again, which ended the worst pay period of my employment at Lowe’s so far…37.5 hours in two weeks. Luckily my bonus will be on this check, however I spent most of the weekend sitting in bed…watching 2 whole seasons of Prison Break, eating pudding cups and drinking month old tea from the cupboards…somehow I’m going to have to pay for art…
I spent most of the time after work sifting through grad schools…and made of list of 10…which I will continue to narrow down. Most of them were chosen for geographic location, one for the fact that they pour lava (which is fucking gnarly)
in no particular order…
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
University of Colorado, Boulder…Boulder, CO
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
University of Montana, Missoula, MT
Montana St. University, Bozeman, MT
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that is all
Before the Temple in Ruins 104 - 9/14 -9/15
(no artwork, blowing bubbles instead)
a burly Merlin Before the Temple in Ruins 101, 2010
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I called off work tonight. I woke up 8 this morning and spent the entire day watching Harper’s Island, of which I started and completed the whole series today…for some reason I have the insomnia…if this persists I’ll be very depressed.
However…while I was napping (or while I should have been at work) becky finished my flask coozy…
Team Edward supplied a video for the treasure hunt, they have successfully completed task 2
Nothing of consequence happened on 9/15
Before the Temple in Ruins 103 - 9/13
(no artwork, making kitsch coasters instead)
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Splice is out one spleen…he has not returned
I’ve been thinking about wearing t-shirts with things on them again, but this would require replacing my entire wardrobe of dull clothes.
Before the Temple in Ruins 102, 9/9
(no artwork, thinking of artwork)
a burly Merlin Before the Temple in Ruins 99, 2010
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Is it wrong to not show up to your own birthday? Is it wrong to not show up to your grandparents 60th anniversary party which is doubling as your own birthday party?
Before the Temple in Ruins 101 - 9/8
(no artwork, doing laundry instead)
a burly Merlin Before the Temple in Ruins 98, 2010
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Before the Temple in Ruins 100 - 9/7
(no artwork, popping muscle relaxers instead)
a burly Merlin Before the Temple in Ruins 97, 2010
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Vto-ed at 8:45 tonight, rented the first 6 Star Trek Films, watched the first two. The first seemed like a Star Trek attempt at being 2001: a space odyssey…however, I enjoyed it’s slow pace and interesting twist. Wrath of Kahn is alot like the Warriors, but in space, and not at all…
I received my sketchbook today for the Sketchbook Project through Art House co-op…maybe i’ll finish this one…so I’m going to start doing daily drawings in order to fill it, even though the deadline is in like January or something…i plan to use more transparency film, so we’ll see a rise in that again…this will have a more refined theme than previous work, which has been more exploratory in nature. It may follow my character through his education on the world. If it bleeds into November I’ll be ending it with the next series of work (Before the Altar, Laid Rest a Monster) and may chronicle the death of Havoc.
I recently discovered a collaborative work by James Lee Byars and writer John Brockman where they wrote a novel and eventually just edited it down to one sentence on 100 pages. Some of the sentences are excellent and profound, while others lack context or refer to characters that don’t exist. However, the use of the pronoun He is prevalent and almost used in a godly or prophetic manner. There’s also a quip about philosophers and aching teeth that I was quite fond of as my wisdom teeth have been causing me much pain. But anyway, it remains thumb tacked to my wall along with a billion other things.
Back to my work…I need to start reeling in on some ideas…too much chaos, too many dark alleyways that I skipped over because the Blimpies was still open…too many ideas is making it really hard for me to focus on one…and I feel that my blog is extremely indicative of this, as said months ago by Jon Swindler, “that it was crazy gibberish” (not an actual quote)…sometime in the next 10 years i need to write Hammer Rock, which I started years ago, I think I finally know how to write it, now I just need to hole up in a desert hotel and put pen to paper.
Before the Temple in Ruins 99 - 9/6
(no artwork, reminiscing with an old friend)
a burly Merlin Before the Temple in Ruins 96, 2010
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I’m sick with what I can only imagine is Lyme disease…though I don’t know any of the symptoms of Lyme disease…
