Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Pints of Guinness Make You Strong is making me want to throw heavy shit.

This is unrelated to the nauseating little smugass fash shit YouTube has decided I want to see because CLEARLY, someone who selects stoner rock, punk, drawing and model railroad technique videos just reads as someone who sure wants to know how Churchill and Columbus were both just great.

Weird Al "Lucy" has kinda whiny female vocals => No Doubt, "Spiderwebs" and "Just a Girl," achingly sad vocals => Cranberries "Dreams," wordless ululating vocals at end => Audioslave "Show Me How to Live," similar instrumetal structure => RAtM, "Wake Up," the urge to throw heavy crap => Against Me, "Pro-Vision L3," "Bamboo Bones"

singing along with No Doubt means using my grandmother's accent, aleha ha shalom.

the moment that I step outside
so many reasons for me to run and hide
can't do the little things y'hold so dear
it's all those little things that y'fear

This is especially counterproductive in places where the world is, or very much appears to be, some sort of scary, exclusive, competitive place. I'm not even talking about the particularly hateful bits, here (though they did NOT HELP!), just talking about the basic went-to-not-great-public-schools part of the exercise. Imo there are literally thousands of people stumbling around with this background which is part of why things are this royally dicked in 2018.

Childhood was so completely *useless*. I got given all this information about hating myself, other people, and the world being some sort of scary, exclusive competitive place, and by comparison I got damn little information about how to actually analyze the world. It's only after I got to college that the world opened up as something you could tease apart.

oh boy, I-miss-my-friends-in-Seattle feels. I mean, I'd prolly hang out in my room a lot being antisocial if I were there already, but you know what I mean, right? Even if I don't use it, the potential of seeing someone is different from not being able to hang out with them unless I spend a ton of money and 16 hours on the road.

HOT TAKE adherence to traditional gender roles is the only reason Cheech Marin filks My Sharona to be about My Scrotum instead of My Vagina

1) I used to parse Bart taking himself hostage as merely a clever trick, the sort of thing you'd hear about in a campfire story; now I think it's actually a take on whites wanting to see Blacks as criminals or victims, but never proficient equals.

2) similarly I used to think the Yiddish speaking Oglala was a pretty superficial joke possibly from Mel Brooks' childhood, but I actually think it's a nuanced dig at anti-semitism in the USA.

And, job applications and little assessments done for the day. Gonna cook breakfast and check my art-for-bucks email.

https://twitter.com/TwitterMoments/status/1023981573916512256

Called it in, it won't do shit. Fucking Sessions, fucking goddamn resign, die, I don't CARE, just fucking stop harming our country!

Okay, is it really nerdy to remember offhand the uThulwana were the guys at Roarke's Drift/kwaJim, or if you're gonna know anything about Zulu army organization during the war, you know that?

ah yes, Ennio Morricone soundtracks

the OLD WEST. The stillness of the hot air broken only by guitar, Manly Grunting, dramatic strings, and from far, far in the distance, you can hear the plaintive BOINGGGG of a jaw-harp.

Apparently "I'm going to take it easy and have a lazy morning - and I know I'll do job hunt later" translates to "Iurid fantasies of specifically how I'd like to soak up touch and attention."

If making art were as easy as feeling discouraged about art I'd have a new painting for you to look at daily.

I adore Halloween and somehow a major company *selling* Halloween stuff in July is jumping the shark in ways me singing "Mysterious Mose" and wanting to play Arkham Horror in cooler weather, doesn't.

Describing The Metabarons as "Dune with the serial numbers filed off, as re-envisioned by someone running on tobacco, coffee and possibly cocaine, but not much sleep."

Aaand more potential posting about big stuff is brewing in my tiny noggin.

The big thing I got out of Eric Canete today was basically; use pose, use angle, use design elements, use organic breaks in shape to create active, diagonal compositions. Make static compositions *only* when that is very intentional.

the guy's complete and utter lack of perfectionism is as inspirational as Iain McCaig's driving enthusiasm.

studying Eric Canete;

* he really builds interesting compositions out of bits and pieces of basically human models

* he builds a lot of dimensionality into costume, line

* he breaks up black areas so they don't flatten things too much

what REALLY floors me though is by comparison to say Ahmed Aldoori or Richard Whitters, Canete draws BIG. It doesn't slow him down at all.