http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Oz-Muerte&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Oz-Muerte en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:41:38 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/28220770/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/28220770/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:04:10 PST The truth is there's been a lot more going on than that, unfortunately its all been negative. Like dealing with a rat infestation, or being sued for the third time this year (!) and having my wages garnished...
Its all stuff I'd rather not talk about, and as a result I've noticed this whole year to be just...a waste. I mean in started off bad with what happened in January, and it seems I have yet to recover emotionally. I know that's true when I by chance saw a SCAD gallery and was pissed thinking that only 1 or 2 pieces there were as good or better than anything I can do. The rest were.... yeah, its like that old saying "if you don't have anything good to say..."
I just felt like shit thinking "THEY don't believe I'm good enough"
*sigh* Anyways, like I said, almost a year later and it still hurts. So much so, that I've secretly thought of saying to hell with art altogether.
You know, its so easy to get caught up in the day to day grind with a job that you dont even realize how you're just going through the motions...just waiting till life's over. Its ridiculous that that's the extent of what life is, when I feel that's nothing like what it needs to be.
Its as if after all of our collective growth and evolutionary progress, we're still little more than hunters & gatherers. Except instead of being in the bush wearing a loincloth, we're in concrete jungles wearing uniforms.
Anyways, I dont want this to turn into a rant, I already attempted writing this twice and each time this turned into "Mein Kampf" only with the wealthy and the exploiters taking the place of Jews,

I had really big plans for this year all of which have been now postponed until next year.
In the meantime, to aide with my financial problems I am officially taking commissions.

===COMMISSIONS====
I doubt anyone will take me up on this, but who knows,,,
I'm not going to set up a pricing system, since I dont believe in doing sketches and all these variations of an art peice. So to put it simply...

I CHARGE $80 DOLLARS MINIMUM

That's steep, I know, but for that you get a full-on illustrated peice. None of this mess where its one character standing there floating on a page filled with white nothingness.... To me that's not worth anything. Not even 20 bucks. For the price of 4 of these 20 dollar sketches that feature 1 character, I'd rather have a fully completed peice with 4 characters in it. Here's an example of what I'm talking about, a commissioned peice from last year...
[link]

Simply send a note, e-mail me, or get in touch with me via AIM (though I'm rarely on to talk at this moment), after which I'll reply and tell you if I'll accept the gig or not.

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As for my 2009 Goals list, it reads like a joke now... Almost nothing was accomplished, either because it became impossible (like stuff for school), or because I was too strung up on personal b.s. and/or stress and time constraints from work, to make anything happen. I'll still close out with it, but just re-reading it now 10 months later and realizing how much time was been lost, its just embarassing....

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GOALS FOR 2009
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INAPPLICABLE = Obtain matriculation fee
CHECK = *Begin work on adult concept project.
CHECK = *Get a Netbook.

*Have a conversation with.... (TOP SECRET)
*Begin re-modeling of DA - starred pieces
*Complete TOTUS "ashcan" & website.
*Refurbish wzrdrobe - nothing fits anymore!
*Begin/complete claw version 1.0.
*Begin/complete backpack project.
*Obtain CWP.

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/24674040/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/24674040/ Sat, 09 May 2009 18:46:45 PDT
But anyways....I was a naysayer a year ago, and even before that, but I'm now forced to eat my words because the new Star Trek KICKED MY ASS TO THE MOON!

I doubt there's any way I can review this in 1,701 words or less, but I'll try....

This is without a doubt the best breath of fresh air the Trek franchise has had in a long ass time. Things were at a height with Star Trek, way back when First Contact was huge, TNG re-runs were on in sindication, DS9 and Voyager were going strong too, and the STar Trek franchise was freakin' everywhere, even in Las Vegas with their own themepark....but then everything went to shit.

One bad move after another began to happen. Insurrection....shitty movie (sorry Ross) with very little of interest to it.
DS9 replaced Dax in the last season (the fuck?). Voyager pulled, what I felt, was a bunch of ratings grabbing stunts, paramount of which (pun INTENDED) was the introduction of the Borg as the main heavies (what about the Kazon?), and of course adding SevenofNine to the cast. Then DS9 ended on a really melancholy downbeat note, Voyager ended and felt more like a really rushed "deus ex machina" ending, which almost gave me the impression the show was on the bubble and rushed the ending in order to beat some mandate from the studio regarding cancellation. That same fate would befall "Enterprise".... And of course that show came after yet another shitty movie: "Nemesis" (sorry Rex), where yes the only cool thing about it was the vehicles....the Scimitar, the Argo, those little Reman jet fighters....but damn it Jim! -it's a movie, not a toy commercial!

Then there was Enterprise.... wow. Just.....wow. Probably the most polarizing Trek incarnation, even more so than the animated series...and yes I'll defend the animated series to the death!! Chekov or not!
People either really loved Enterprise or just really hated the piss out of it... I happen to stand in the latter group of urine loathers (sorry Ross -again). I think Enterprise to me was just not Star Trek....and my biggest problem with it all was the fact that it was a prequel. I always felt Trek should go FORWARD, not back. What was the point in showing us back stories about THE FUTURE???....and it was headed up by the dude from Quantum Leap???... I mean, I would try to watch Enterprise and get into it, but I kept expecting the hologram fucker with his "ziggy" palm pilot thingy to show up and be like "Sam! According to Ziggy if you don't prevent this event from happening Captain Kirk may never be born, and Spock will commit suicide at the age of 28!"

So Star Trek just seemed to be slipping off the face of the Earth...3 shows ended, movie series ran into the ground and another show that was forced to end prematurely due to the threat of cancellation. And what of Las Vegas?, They tore the fuckin' theme park down!!....THE FUCK?

So yeah, I was really skeptical about this new movie, especially it being yet ANOTHER prequel. Last one sucked, so why wouldn't this, right?

Well, I was wrong...really fucking wrong. Damn it does this kick ass. It doesn't insult or push aside anything that's not already established in the franchise and yet it gives you less of a prequel and more of an alternate re-telling of Star Trek from the begining. And the real beauty part about all this is, that it works for people who are new to Trek as well as those of us who know what the hell a "jeffries tube" is. I mean, I found myself unable to actually keep up with all the stuff that felt familiar to me... like the bullies messing with young Spock, or mentioning the USS Hood, or CYRANO-FRICKIN'- JONES!! (check the end credits)...
I'd need to see it again just to check out all those touches of continuity I might have missed!

On top of all that, the story is told in such a way that it captures all the humor that honestly seemed to be left out of all the other Star Trek series. The original show always felt like the crew was a family and there would be comedic moments that spawned from that relationship because you got the idea that these people had worked together for so long and knew eachother so well that they knew each of their crewmates tricks & foibles. The shows that came after the original all felt at times like they were trying too hard to be taken seriously, and made comedy seem like it was a bizarre/foreign concept at times. And this problem is not a factor with the Trek reboot. The chemistry of the people on screen amazes me considering that these people were all strangers to one another just a small time ago, both as characters and as actors.

Now despite the movie kicking my ass (listening to the soundtrack now and probably going to see it again tomor... ]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/22882820/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/22882820/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:22:40 PST They turned me down.
The mighty Casey struck out.
The final bell came and the judges sided with Apollo....

So that's about it.

I figured I would be more angry than this. Or sad. But I'm not really sure what I'm feeling. Maybe I'm just so use to people telling me I'm not good enough. Like I'm immune to it, and it simply carries less weight now. I mean, if this had been 5 to 10 years ago, I would of been throwing shit out the window and punching holes in the wall, but instead I feel this sort of anti-climactic vaccum encompassing me. Its like the ending to "Raiders", and you see that after this long and hard fought battle with Belloq's douche-ass, the indigenious arabs, and the many soldiers and agents of the third reich, not to mention snakes and a monkey.... we're forced to sit back and watch as the fruits of Indy's labor --the Ark, gets carted away into the hollow anals of bureaucracy, to be lost for probably ANOTHER 3,000 years, burried in a tomb of, this time red tape, as opposed to sand.

At least that's the message *I* always got out of the ending, along with the obvious reference to Citizen Kane.... but what do I know.

At any rate, I feel like that though...that same anti-climactic feeling of "Poor Indy, It was all for nothing" that I felt with Raiders. I mean, I look at all the shit that's had to happen thus far, and that it was all done in an effort to succeed here... I mean, picking up and moving, re-arranging my life, having nowhere to go back to, leaving people behind, going overboard into debt... it was all for nothing. Wow.
At least Indy could say he got Marion back.... shit, where's *MY* Marion?....

I remember the guys at work saying how I must be either stupid or crazy to do all of this sacrifice and risk for this and yet not have any gurantee that I'd be accepted...and this coming from people who have 2 and 3 "baby mamas" and can barely read or write is a very large insult to my ego.
I guess because it makes me realize that I'm no better than they are.

Through my roommate I've learned over the past 2 years that the city seems to be filled with people who came here with big hopes and dreams and they too were never accepted. Or worse, they flunked out. And now they just drink and "hang out" all damn day.
I had a dream last night that showed that as being my fate....weird dream, but it'd probably be best to call it a nightmare.

And I'm now left with the decision of what to do next...

?????

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GOALS FOR 2009
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INAPPLICABLE = Obtain matriculation fee

*Have a conversation with.... (TOP SECRET)
*Begin re-modeling of DA - starred pieces
*Complete TOTUS "ashcan" & website.
*Begin work on adult concept project.
*Refurbish wzrdrobe - nothing fits anymore!
*Get a Netbook.
*Begin/complete claw version 1.0.
*Begin/complete backpack project.
*Obtain CWP.

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/22482170/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/22482170/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:16:34 PST So what happened this past year?... First black president, Indiana Jones is back and only myself and Butters seemed to like it, QOS was nowhere near as good as CR thanks to a douchebag director, (same can be said for Frank Miller and Ms. Kickboxer in regards to Spirirt & Punisher respectively), Morgan Freeman said "Shoot THIS mother fucker!", new Metallica album ruled my fucking world, and MGS4....I don't even want to talk about that shit, which is why I never posted a 1,000 word rant on the topic here, its not even worth my time. Kojima is fucking dead to me. And of course we lost Dave & Bettie...
[link]

At any rate, as per the last 3 years or so, I've continued my "Tao of McConaughey", only this past year -2008 it was something of a failure...I was barely able to complete half of what I needed accomplished. I'm not even sure how that happened. But I guess I can attribute that to this long transitional period (new job, moving, moving AGAIN), which has been stretched out for far too long.
But now that things are seeming to be more stable I'm hoping most of what needs to be done, will be accomplished.

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GOALS FOR 2009
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*Have a conversation with.... (TOP SECRET)
*Obtain matriculation fee.
*Refurbish wardrobe - nothing fits anymore!
*Netbook.... Netbook = JACK THE INTERNET!
*Begin/complete claw version 1.0.
*Begin/complete backpack project.
*Begin re-modeling of DA - starred pieces
*Complete TOTUS "ashcan" & website.
*Begin work on adult concept project.
*Obtain CWP.

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/21290304/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/21290304/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:36:22 PST One thing in particular, I've pulled another Lucas and gone back and changed the first panel from Ghost Rider Femme. I was never really satisfied with it, so it was worth revisiting. You can see a side by side comparison here: ---> [link]

God only knows what's going to happen in the next 2 months where school is concearned... One thing's for sure, I got to find a way to make some money to cover matriculation before the year ends...

SPEAKING OF WHICH, I'm still wide open for commissions. I've yet to set prices, so just send a note, e-mail, or message me via AIM, we can negotiate something at that time.

As for the election... I'm fairly sure who the winner will be. Mind you, I'm just going based on the campaign signs people place on their lawn to tell me who's going to win. And based on the overwhelming popularity at this point I'd have to say all hail President Lender Foreclosure.

You know that joke would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that there's some people I actually know who would think I'm being genuine. *sigh* Wow.

And expect me to start on some drastic changes around here in the coming months... I feel I've grown as an artist, and more importantly as a person, and I want this account to reflect that. I would like it that in a year from now you wont recognize it. Hell, most people who knew me before probably wouldn't recognize me now if they saw me. So this space on-line should accurately reflect that change.

Stay Tuned...
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GOALS FOR 2008
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CHECK = *Get my computer replaced.
CHECK = *Fix "lack of funds" situation.
CHECK = *Get domain name stuff in order.
CHECK = *Finish up & submit portfolio.

*Fulfill the Brezsny Prophecy.
*Complete TOTUS "ashcan" & website.
*Get "Sides" short done for website.
*Begin work on adult concept project.
*Find a LEGAL way to make 10 grand over night (I AGAIN doubt this one's happening).
*Obtain CWP.
*Beat the living shit out of Ross Campbell!

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/19421628/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/19421628/ Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:20:54 PDT [link] ....and I took forever with the turn around rate thanks to things getting in the way like work.
My apologies to the client. He seemed to want it sooner rather than later, but leave it to me and I would've have worked on it for a year before giving it to him. Maybe I was being too much of a perfectionist. But fuck it, if I'm going to be known as the Von Stroheim of commissioned artwork, then so be it. "You'll hate my guts even if I have to charge you millions of your dollars to do it!"....Actually that'd be more than enough to make you hate ANYONE'S guts.

Oh and in case anyone else wants to commission me let me just say this, I cost a lot, but only because I don't believe in the whole "here's a sketch of a character floating in white space"...that to me isn't really worth anything. If its worth my time and worth your money, it should be a full-on illustration. So yeah, keep that in mind, if you're gonna contact me about a commission. And nothing against furries, but I'm just not a furry kind of person. So please no more furries...I actually like to draw people...you know people right?, They're the only animals on the planet that ACTUALLY talk....well, parrots talk, but... WHATEVER!...
People....OK?

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GOALS FOR 2008
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CHECK = *Get my computer replaced.
CHECK = *Fix "lack of funds" situation.
CHECK = *Get domain name stuff in order.

*Finish up & submit portfolio.
*Fulfill the Brezsny Prophecy.
*Complete TOTUS "ashcan" & website.
*Get "Sides" short done for website.
*Begin work on adult concept project.
*Find a LEGAL way to make 10 grand over night (I AGAIN doubt this one's happening).
*Obtain CWP.
*Beat the living shit out of Ross Campbell!

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/18763696/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/18763696/ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:48:40 PDT

THIS IS THE GREATEST FUCKING VIDEOGAME ABOUT INDIANA JONES WHICH ALSO HAPPENS TO DEAL WITH LEGOS, EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE FUCKING UNIVERSE!!!

This game is the ultimate work of art. The Mona Lisa is a mere finger painting compared to the pure awesomeness of this fucking game!!
Don't believe me? You want to KNOW what awesomeness exists in this game?
Ok....
The Nazis...oh whoops, sorry "Enemies"....guess Lego can't say "Nazi".... probably still sore about the invasion, ANYWAYS, the "Enemies" are all blonde haired & blued eyed, and they actually goose step!!
Every character has his/her own fighting style, Indy does some really cool brawling moves, Willie does this cute hand slappy combo. And yeah Short Round does too-god-damned-cute-for-its-own-good Lego Karate.
In fact, Traveler's Tales did such a HUGE improvement over the Star Wars games here, all the character movements are unique & distinct, not only that they make sense. I noticed that when I went through free play mode and dropped Sapito in the water, and he struggled & flailed his arms as if drowning, but when I dropped Captain Katanga (a sailor) in, the guy treaded water perfectly, as you'd expect a seaman to do!
Little touches like that are just brilliant.
The levels play alright and mimmick the movies enough to be familiar but new enough to make you go
"..The hell am I suppose to do now?....OH I see."
As for the crazy shit people have been wondering about, let me break this much to you now.... The heart ripping scene from Temple of Doom.... Sorry. In fact, that and the "evil Indy" parts are more or less cut from the game for whatever reason. Though I feel the mine cart chase level more than makes up for that, probably the best level in the whole Temple chapter.
But don't worry, the head exploding & face melting from Raiders?....OH FUCK YEAH! And its never been cuter when its happening to Lego men!!
Though not gory, it still looks cool as hell, and seems so fucking intense with the film's score playing along with it.
The absolute BEST adapted level for me though had to be the final level of Crusade... The "three trials" were all done fucking superb. I was sitting there playing this, going
"The penitent man shall pass.... penitent...penitent man...penitent...penitent..." over and over. Not that that's out of the ordinary, I do that like 5 times a day.
But yeah, I remember the NES & SNES Indy games not being as accurate to that movie's finale as this was. Especially the "spell Jehovah" part.... Jesus, I've seen the movie 900,000 times, it's borderline my favorite out of all four, and I *STILL* stepped on "J" first and then said "FUCK! In the latin alphabet Jehovah starts with...." The level was insanely accurate, even down to the "choose wisely"....you have to actually do it, and there's like 10,000 cups to choose from!

This game is insanely badass, and the best licensed Lego game to date. I really REALLY can't wait for Lego Batman now.
Go and get this game or I'll rape your mother! END OF STORY!

Oh yeah, and the star wars cameos are fucking awesome. Anytime Chewie gets to wave to Indy in Mos Eisley as if to say "hey, I know you" is just 10 steps beyond bad ass.
...wow, this STILL became a 9,000 page essay. Well, whatever. Don't waste your time reading all this jazz, just go play the damn game! GO! NOW!

My regular journal entries will return next month.

P.S. sorry to a certain individual I haven't been contacting lately, but need to. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE...Yes I mean YOU. Who'd you think I was talking about?
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GOALS FOR 2008
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CHECK = *Get my computer replaced.
*Finish up & submit portfolio.
CHECK = *Fix current "lack of fundage" situation.
*Fulfill the Brezsny Prophecy.
*Complete TOTUS "ashcan" & website.
*Get "Sides" short done for website.
*Get domain name stuff in order.
*Begin work on adult concept project.
*Find a LEGAL way to make 10 grand over night (I AGAIN doubt this one's happening).
*Obtain CWP.
*Beat the living shit out of Ross Campbell!

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/18482493/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/18482493/ Sat, 24 May 2008 16:46:02 PDT AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
-A review & dissertation...

Well, I got around to seeing Dr. Jones latest adventure on opening day, and thought I'd write a quick review (and by that I mean, its long as fuck), but I just haven't been able to get any time to write it, until now...

Now, not that anyone could give three shits for what I have to say I'll have to set the record straight for whoever may be reading this and try to balance out the universe, okay?
Don't listen to all the negative B.S. that's floating around out there on-line.

"Worst...movie....ever"

"Lucas raped my childhood....AGAIN."

Man, fuck all that. There's tons, and I mean TONS of trolling over at IMDB messageboards. Here's the fucked up part... if all these posters at IMDB hated it so much, why does it have a rating of 8.6 out of 10???? Doesn't make sense does it?
Just ignore all that, read my anti-thesis statements here, and check the movie out for yourself with an open mind.
Light Spoilers Ahead....
Ok, so let's review...
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HOLY FUCKING JESUS!!!!! Wow....just wow. Ok, for me personally, I have to rank this probably coming in at second or third (not quite sure yet) in regards to the other films, with Raiders still on top. Nothing will ever beat Raiders, simply because that was the start and that's what everything after it will always be compared to, that's just how it is.
But on its own merits, I think its really well done, and worthy of being right up there next to it.
Now let's get right into the big issues surrounding why people hate this movie right now....

The "WTF???" moments. Yeah sure there were many throughout the movie where you have to suspend your disbelief which people are citing as a huge problem with the movie.... As if in Temple of Doom when Indy goes jumping out of a crashing plane in an inflatable raft, and then goes careening down the side of a mountain....then a cliff....then a raging river.....that's all somehow REALISTIC, compared to the stuff he does in Crystal Skull?....Are you kidding me with this shit?!?! To me its nuts that anyone would go into an ADVENTURE film and start talking about realism....its not a documentary for Christ's sake!
So don't listen to people about the unbelievable feats in the film. And yeah I'm counting the refridgerator stunt among all that. When I first heard about it I said "He did WHAT?!!?"....But watching it in the context of some of the crazier shit he's survived in the series, it all evens out as far as I'm concearned.

The other major gripe revolves around the "McGuffin" for the movie, the Skulls themselves, and how it "just isnt Indiana Jones"... SHUT THE FUCK UP. Here's the god's honest truth okay... All the Indy films are based in fact. Lucas takes fact, and throws in fiction, and the end result is an Indy film. Its just that simple. The Ark of The Covenant was real. The Hebrews built this thing to carry what was left of the commandments in them. Lucas put a lot of FACT into the fiction to make it believable. Like how only a kohen is allowed to touch the ark (hence the wooden poles Indy & Sallah slipped into those loops on the side. In fact that's the whole reason those loops are even there!
This same theme of fiction based in fact goes for the other movies. I hate it when people laugh at me and make me look like I'm crazy when I tell them that Temple of Doom was based on fact. THE THUGGEE CULT ACTUALLY FUCKING EXISTED!!! They did really fucked up shit, and the British empire went so far as to wage a war on them. Where the hell do you think the english word "thug" even originated from???
So what about Crystal Skulls?... Well people say the movie isn't Indy because its going off into sci-fi territory. FUCK ALL THAT. What's so "sci-fi" about FACT? Every ancient tribal culture believed they were visited by "Saucermen from mars" as Indy would joke. Which that joke was about how the film's original title was Indiana Jones and the Saucer...you get the point.
Anyways, each ancient civilization believed the same shit. All the stuff spoken of in the film has factual support to it. All Lucas did was take fictional steps forward with it. "Filled in the gaps" so to speak.
And people still flip about the movie not being religious in nature.... There's a line in the movie that explains that away really easily. Mutt (Indy's sidekick-I wont say anymore) is talking to Indy about the skulls being a representation of the Mayan's God. Mutt says "That doesn't look like God"
Indy replies "Depends which God we're talking about kid." ....God takes on many shapes, many forms, many faces, many names. The Indy films are ALL ABOUT THAT. Why the hell else do you think each film revolves around a different branch of faith?
Raiders = Jewish
Temple = Hindu
Crusade = Christian
And the late... ]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/17663118/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/17663118/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:21:11 PDT
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Title: My, how Maleficent you are.
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Submitted: 2006-03-02 11:30:39 pm"
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That's right! My Maleficent has been banned.
I can think of one person I know who'd outright report me just to get it banned.... and if it is you, then I'm really fucking pissed at you, but whatever.

A more likely scenario would be some Disneyanna nut is responsible. The kind of a nut who thinks the whole world is kind & cute & cuddly and a perfect loving place meant only for five year olds. Where prince charming is coming to save you, and there's always a happy song-filled ending. These people make me want to vomit up diarrhea. These are the kind of people who give "the whole turkey" rather than "the bird" to other drivers (If you watch Penn & Teller you know what I'm talking about). I'm sure they were offended by Enchanted and felt Disney has suffered a "fall from grace" for making such a film. "Prostitutes, the homeless, vermin, & homosexuals in a Disney movie? HOW DARE THEY!" Apparently these people live in a glowing pink bubble of protection which allows them to see the world as this pristine place where things like sex, drugs, violence, nudity, drinking, cursing, etc, etc, etc, never actually occur. Well good for them. But I personally don't live in, and can't EVER live in, a world as asanine & blindly blissfull as that. It's idiotic at best, and dangerous at worse!
So to that person out there on DA cruising for more deviations that ruin their own warped concepts of how the world should be friendly fairy tales and gum drop dreams, and then report these "aberrations" to DA and make themselves feel like they've done a good job and can pat themselves on the back.... FUCK YOU.
GROW THE FUCK UP!
THAT'S THE END OF THE STORY.
May you live UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER you fuckin' passive-agressive overly-sensitive closet-pedophile bitch!

Do the world a favor and go kill yourself.
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GOALS FOR 2008
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*Get my computer replaced.
*Finish up & submit portfolio.
*Fix current "lack of fundage" situation.
*Fulfill the Brezsny Prophecy.
*Complete TOTUS "ashcan" & website.
*Get "Sides" short done for website.
*Get domain name stuff in order.
*Begin work on adult concept project.
*Find a LEGAL way to make 10 grand over night (I AGAIN doubt this one's happening).
*Obtain CWP.
*Beat the living shit out of Ross Campbell!

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/16271675/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/16271675/ Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:18:19 PST ============================

Well, here I am again, attempting this "Tao of McConaughey" thing from last year:
[link]

Last years list of goals, wasn't placed up here every single time I updated like it was suppose to. But the funny thing is, like 80% of the things on the list actually got accomplished! It actually happened without me even realizing it, until the last week of December '07.
The only things that didn't get accomplished were some out there shit, like the 5 grand thing. But for the most part it was all done, even the losing weight. I'm like 50 lbs lighter than before...weird that all my clothes fit. I'm so use to putting on jeans and then feeling like I'm gonna throw up.

So yeah, I figured since it worked, this should become a yearly ritual now.
Fuck resolutions, they don't work, but this shit somehow does....so here it is again...my list of goals for this year... and same as last year, this may make sense only to me what with all the covert lingo & abbreviations, but whatever...
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GOALS FOR 2008
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*Get my computer replaced.
*Finish up & submit portfolio.
*Fix current "lack of fundage" situation.
*Fulfill the Brezsny Prophecy.
*Complete TOTUS "ashcan" & website.
*Get "Sides" short done for website.
*Get domain name stuff in order.
*Begin work on adult concept project.
*Find a LEGAL way to make 10 grand over night (I AGAIN doubt this one's happening).
*Obtain CWP.
*Beat the living shit out of Ross Campbell!

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/14842366/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/14842366/ Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:09:53 PDT
Firstly let me state that the reports of my demise have been GREATLY exagerated. Jesus, you're off-line for 20 weeks and everyone starts "I heard he was dead" rumors. What's with you people?!?!
Don't you know you can't kill damnation, Mister!
It don't die like a man dies!....

God bless Reverend Sayer.

Anyways, so if I'm not dead then what the hell happened? Well I up and moved, to a far off mystical land called "Savannah", a land of clowns riding bicycles through the street, people arguing with squirells in the park, and old chicks singing opera in the supermarket, oh yeah and its also a land where life sucks worse than its ever sucked before in the history of the god damned universe. I mean, Living out here isn't at all what I expected. Not at all what people told me or even warned me it was like. I really wish someone had convinced me before all this to become rich FIRST and THEN move to Savannah...because apparently that's the only way to survive out here. If you're poor, then you're coming here to just get poorer apparently.

Well after a long...and I mean A LONG time, I've finally gotten some stuff in order. I mean I went a while without water or electricity, and I could handle that, but internet access??? That's a necessity!!
And I wish someone had warned me about that too. I mean just how damn difficult it is to get internet access out here. Apparently if you're not willing to play Monopoly, then you're just not getting on-line. What in THE BLUE HELL is up with that?!?!
Last time I checked these bussiness practices were illegal... whatever.
So fast forward several months and here I am.

A lot, and I reiterate: A LOT, of just plain WACKY shit has gone on since I moved here. I could type for the next year about dog yoga, retards on the bus asking people to tickle them, the chick that smells like diarrhea, run-ins with trannys, or me meeting Ben Affleck.... (I'm not making ANY of that up by the way) but in the end I'd be typing out a fucking novel, so fuck that.
I mean I'm backed up right now, I gotta reply to 155 FUCKING MESSAGES?!?!.... And here I thought no one cared.

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/12637547/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/12637547/ Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:31:12 PDT What's I'm refering to is this almost fashionable trend of pointing to something that's new and immediately proclaiming to the heavens "THAT'S A RIP OFF OF...."
That trend seemed to be only apparent in the elitist geek subculture but I've noticed it now spread to everybody else like a plague.
And yeah I've been guilty of doing that too, because certainly somtimes its so damned clear that anyone with half a brain could see it. They could see "Exhibit A" and then see "Exhibit B" and go "Oh yeah, that's a bite off."
But its to the point I think its gotten ridiculously out of hand.
Case in point, this comicbook fiasco... It reminds me of something Peter David said in regards to plagarism....
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"Being inspired by." It's when somebody's work starts the wheels of your mind spinning. It's when you take a concept, or an idea, or a bit of business, and twist it around and transpose it and make it into your own. This takes work.
It is also possible to take the aforementioned concept or idea or bit of business and put it in its entirety in your story. Now it's possible to do this unintentionally. This is called "happenstance."
And if you realize it while there's still time to do something about it, then either you excise it or else acknowledge the source. This is called "honesty."
However, if you do it deliberately, hoping to pull a fast one, that's called "plagiarism,"
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The second instance there is the one that concearns me right now because that's the instance my life is in right now.... "happenstance".

Mind you, I was never inspired by this new comicbook. Infact I never ever even heard of the shit. To put it more bluntly this shit didn't even EXIST prior to January 2007, while my creation dates back to 1996. So....what the fuck?
Yet I know, I just KNOW that I'm going to face a ridiculous ammount of hate mail going along the lines of "YOU'RE A RIP OFF ARTIST!!"
Don't think that's possible? Then you obviously never heard of the dreaded "Balto" incident with Xombi creator James Farr.... To sum it up real quick, it was an incident of happenstance. Farr created a dog sidekick for his cartoon character Xombi. The dog happened to look minorly superficial in appearance to the main character of the 1995 animated movie "Balto". Well happenstance or not, everyone armed with their righteous "RIP OFF" shields starting pounding this guy's messageboards, e-mail, and myspace with tons and tons of hate mail and death threats.... over a fucking children's animated movie???
Eventually he was forced to give in and do an entire re-design of the character... THAT IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS. But this is unfortunately the world we live in now.
I mean, I think about how events of the past would be handled today, like if SwampThing made his debut July of THIS YEAR instead of in July of 1971. Think about it...everyone would HATE Swampy. DC would get ENDLESS AMMOUNTS OF HATE MAIL.
Why? Because as history records, Marvel's creation of "Man-Thing" was already a comicbook character a whole month before the world met SwampThing. Today there would be no end to the ammount of PR bullshit both Marvel & DC would be going through. But back then it was cited as what it was; happenstance. And that's EXACTLY what it was. Man-Thing creator Gerry Conway was college roomies with SwampThing co-creator Len Wein. And despite that, in the end it was all a big "WTF" screwball coincidence.
Kind of like the shit I'm in right now... I mean, this comicbook is so similar to mine it scares the living shit out of me.
If you took my setting and put it several hundred years in the past instead of our current present day, and then changed the main character's race from white to black, then yeah it'd be pretty damned close.
This hasn't been the first "close call" but it definitely hurts the most out of all of them...and it hurts even more knowing who the artist is... and that's a whole other rant for another day I'm afraid...
But I'm left here thinking to myself wether or not I should even go forward with this. I mean, should I just say to hell with it and start on something else, or is this so much a part of me that I can't see myself doing anything else? I mean, my whole life in one way or another has revolved around this, and now feeling that someone else, living only a hundred miles away from me managed to come up with an idea so similar to mine and is already well on their way to getting their stu... ]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/11305874/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/11305874/ Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:29:34 PST So now FINALLY I might get some dancing muppet action this year!
Hmmmm....muppet lap dance, eh?....gotta remember that.
Anyways....
I'm stealing this "goals" thing from another Deviant....it reminded me of this "Tao of McConaughey" shit I got off Matthew McConaughey, when he was on Conan. He said that he makes lists, like "to do" lists. And he doesn't just put the important stuff down like
"Pay the bills, re-shingle the roof, etc etc"
He puts stuff down like
"Have a beer....eat breakfast...",
....So that way you're checking stuff off the list like crazy and by the end of the day it looks like you got tons of stuff done!
I started doing that, and yeah you really do get a feeling like you're getting shit accomplished. I mean the guy was on to something. The list I made a week ago looked like it got checked by Probert!

Anyways...the Goals thing... I hate "New Year's Resolutions" cause they boil the whole forthcoming year down to one single desire that's often forgotten about by the end of the month or by the end of the requisite New Year's hangover.... But I figured, this goals thing, it'd work sort of like the list, only on a long term basis and to keep it up here on each new journal so I'll see it everytime I log into DA. You know as a sort of constant reminder of the shit that I need to do by the end of the year.

This wont make much sense to anybody but me with all the covert lingo and abbreviations and shit. But whatever.... When something's done, it'll get a "CHECK!" next to it.

If by Dec '07 nothing on the list is checked off, then yeah....I'm just a punk-ass nobody....

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GOALS FOR 2007
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*Not be homeless by the end of January.
*Get "Sides" short story done for website.
*Finish reworking the TOTUS website and upload it.
*Finally (!) begin construction on personal website.
*Get scratch-disk space crisis fixed so I can do color work again.
*Get the letters of reccomendation & transcript I need for SCAD.
*Get "Plan C" & "Plan D" done for the portfolio.
*Find a LEGAL way to make 5 grand over night. (I really doubt this one's happening)
*Pack out the trash, and get ready to....
*Escape From F-LA!
*Finally get the plates on my car.
*Figure out WTF that movie is!! (see my last journal entry)
*Get down to fighting weight.
*Get my pull caught up.
*Beat the living shit out of The Mad Bomber!

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/11183184/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/11183184/ Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:04:33 PST
I was really young when I saw a horror movie my uncle rented, and I've spent literally my entire life looking for this thing and can't find it, I have no idea of the the title or actors in it or anything, all I remember are some images from the film and a vague notion on the plot.

The other day I was watching a retrospective on Tobe Hooper's career and had seen everything he's done that they talked about with the exception of one movie "Invaders From Mars"....something about the clips they showed sparked my memories and made me go:

"Is that IT?!?! After all this time, is this that movie I've been looking for?!?!"

So I'll describe what I remember and if its not Invaders From Mars, then PLEASE...SOMEONE...tell me what on earth this movie could actually be!

Ok... what I remember is a movie about aliens or some other kind of monster, they may or may not have been insect-like, but I'm fairly sure they were aliens. These things, they eat people, particularly people's heads for no real reason, its just what they do.
A kid in the movie, who I'd guess was like the main character figures this stuff out and makes like a mock-up head. I guess he was into horror movie special effects, sort of like Tommy in Friday The 13th Part 4. Anyways, he makes this head, and stuffs it with some kind of explosive, like dynamite, and puts the head on a long pole, and uses it to taunt the alien monster getting it to chase him. The kid finally gets the alien to bite the head off and swallow it and of course the thing blows up and the alien is blown to a million peices.
Now here's where it gets REALLY weird.... the army is there and decides that the only "safe" way to dispose of these monsters is to bury the chunks of them that are left far apart from eachother, cause if they're too close together, they'll fuse back together into one of the monsters. So they bury the chunks of these things in holes set fairly far apart and they end up taking up an entire field just to accomplish this. Well after they're done, one of the characters makes this obligalatory "That's the end of that chapter" type of ironic foreshadowing remark, because just then the ground starts shaking.
Suddenly this GIGANTIC version of the alien rises up out of the ground, made from all the fused together parts of the previous dead ones, and stands like 4 stories tall.
And that's the end!!...I mean right when it stands up out of the ground, the screen jumps to black and the credits roll.

I've been looking for that movie since I was 5 years old, and that's all I know about it. That and that it scared the living *beep* out of me at that age. When people on the Tobe Hooper documentary started talking about the "cliffhanger" ending, and showed one of the martians, I thought to myself:

"Is this IT?!!? Have I finally found it after 20 long years?!?!"

So, is what I'm talking about the Invaders From Mars re-make from '86 or not?

And if its not, then WHAT THE HELL IS IT?!!?

There's a lot of horror movies I saw in the 80's when I was real young (perhaps too young) and had no idea what they were or what the hell was going on with them. As a result they warped my mind. Not just due to the content mind you, but also because as I'd describe them to people, I would get this usual response... people would go "WTF?!?!"...and basically look at me like I'm crazy. It affected me pretty badly. Made me seem like I was nuts.

But the thing is, so far, all of those memories have turned out to be real ACTUAL movies.

I remembered a movie where King Kong was eating rednecks that were pissing him off, people said "yeah right", years later I found out it was King Kong Lives.

I remembered a movie with giantic U.S. and Russian robots fighting over ownership of America in boxing matches, people told me "Bullshit" years later I found out it was Robojox.

I remembered a movie where this girl has all the flesh on her face crack and rip apart in a gory way and she's a big panther underneath. People said "WTF?", years later I found out it was the remake of Cat People.

I remembered a werewolf movie with a guy turning into a giantic wolf as big as a house and then an army guy shoots him in the face with a bazooka, people said "No way, there's no movie like that, it sounds retarded.", years later I found out it was Howling 3.

And I can cite a dozen more examples and perhaps even a dozen more than that.
So I don't just "make shit up", when I say I saw something I FUCKING SAW SOMETHING!

So I know for a fact there's this buried-underground-giant-insect-alien-head-eatin-monster movie running around out there SOMEWHERE, its not my fucking imagination. I just have to find it. So some... ]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/10327176/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/10327176/ Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:49:33 PDT What better time to be a kid, you get to dress up like a minion of satan and beg strangers for food.
I remember when I was younger me and my cousin wouldn't even say "trick or treat", we'd just cut through the bullshit and say "Money or food!!"
And when I was too poor to aford a costume and I hated doing that ghost made from a white bed sheet crap, I'd just go dressed in my regular clothes.
People at the door would ask "Now, just what are you suppose to be?"
And I'd yell "I'M RETARDED!!!".....

Ah...those were the days.

Now its messed up though, Halloween went from being my favorite holiday to the most boring one. Its like if you're past a certain age there's just nothing to do. I mean no one thinks its crazy for a kid to be dressed up as something, but an adult? Now that's just plain weird. Yeah sure plenty of adults do that at conventions, but you're not actually "in public" when surrounded by 200 other people dressed like elves and superheroes and anime people.
I remember even in highschool when they let us dress up as shit, the last week of october, and no one would do it for fear of being made fun of. Me having nothing to lose in that department I alternated between Ghostface from Scream and Micheal Myers.

And people say "well you can go to a haunted house or something"....yeah right, like I'm gonna drive 80 miles and spend 80 bucks just to go to see Yucko The Clown and The Porno Movie Director celebrating Sweet 16 with a circle jerk marathon or whatever the hell's going on this year across the street from the mouse's house.

And I've heard people say "just rent a bunch of scary movies"....I own more than the rental places fucking have, so what's the point? And besides I watch that shit year round, its not like doing that on the 31st is anything really special.

The other option would be going to a halloween party.....yeeeeeaaaaah, those don't exist here. No one around here would ever throw one in a million years either because they have no sense of fun or because they don't want to go to hell. Well too late, you fuckers are already living there and don't know it yet.

That pretty much exhausts every option.
Once age 15 or so came about Halloween became about as fun as my birthday.... ugh.

Thats why I need to get hooked up with one of those "Defense Against The Dark Arts" type chicks, so we can do some sort of really crazy kinky all hallow's eve demonic deity evocation sex ritual.... or something....

At least it'd give me something to look forward to every October!!

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/10180894/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/10180894/ Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:39:36 PDT The model I drew for that censored deviation, she was gracious enough to put my deviation on her DA account....
I figured all was well. That even if my work couldn't be on my own account since I'd risk getting suspended, it could at least be seen on someone else's account. The one other person who should be allowed to post it.
But apparently it wasn't safe there either.
Not even a month after she posted it, it was taken down by DA admins who sent her a violation notice.
Deja Vu all over again....
Except this time the violation wasn't for the mature content of the deviation like last time, this time it was for Copyright Violation!?!?.... WHAT!?!?
It seems you can't post other people's work on your account. Only the originator of the work in question (me) is allowed to post stuff to their own DA account.

So now tell me, is this bullshit or not??? It's a technicality, to try and bury that deviation even further. And it happen, yet again, SO VERY FAST after its submition.... So, what the hell is going on???
You know, I hate to jump to conclusions, but I'm think that whoever reported this as a violation the first time was the same person who did it again this time. Someone wants it to dissapear that badly.

Now this is just getting weird.
And if I try to re-submit it or do something along those lines to make it a part of my gallery again, then some other bizarre shit will probably happen and it'll get banned again, for newer trumped up reasons, and the situation will just keep getting weirder.
I honestly don't know what's going on.

]]> ~Oz-Muerte http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/9781194/ http://Oz-Muerte.deviantart.com/journal/9781194/ Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:20:59 PDT I come on-line, everythings bussiness as usual, and then I see I have a note from the DevArt admins....

Seems one of my deviations was deemed "offensive" and was deleted last night.
Its gone. That's all there is to it.
In fact, its as if the thing never existed....

You know, this really has hurt me too. I mean, I'm not angry, but I feel hurt. I figured DA would be the last place in the world where someone could point an accusing finger at me and consider me human garbage, but apparently not. It seems there is no place like that on this planet.
I mean this is DEVIANT art after all..... DEVIANT.... I mean, if I post something that's of a DEVIANT nature, shouldn't it be comfortably at home here? No, apparently not.
There is no "home"....in the words of Magneto:

"There is no land of tolerance. There is no peace. Not here, or anywhere else."

Perhaps thats being a bit melodramatic, but I'm starting to see truth in those words.

Why I've been singled out for this I don't know. I mean, today alone I noticed 2 deviations that should be banned just as well if mine was. But they were on a subscriber's account, so maybe that's some form of immunity, I don't know how this all works.

What would be an even harder blow, would be for admins to delete this journal entry. Like how I've heard about them deleting "anti-DA" forum posts and things like that. I mean shit, it isn't like anyone is actually gonna side with me on this issue, and even if they did, what would be the point? It wouldn't do any good, just be a waste of breath.
But if I get too much stuff banned/deleted, then they might suspend or delete my account altogether, so it'd be best if I just shut up now. ]]> ~Oz-Muerte