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Monitor monitor monitor!
(felt like I hadn't quite said "monitor" enough yet)

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/27773588/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/27773588/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:46:34 PDT
Goodbye Grandpa. I love you.


]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/27568044/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/27568044/ Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:20:50 PDT
In reading news, I read the Golden Compass this morning. It was pretty good. Lord Asrael turned out to be the little bitch I suspected he would be though. Bastard. Took a few hours break and now I am starting The Subtle Knife. Also read the first book in the Book of The Long Sun tetralogy by Gene Wolfe; good so far, though I think I liked The Book of The Short Sun better. Severian was just a bit more interesting than Silk is, though that may change as the story progresses. **ponders** Maybe I'll squeeze in a quick Terry Pratchett book tomorrow to lighten the somber tones of the other two books I'm reading. **shrugs**

In new muzak news: The new Five Finger Death Punch album, "War is the Answer," is great. Just really great. More varied than their first outing (ie: he sings more) but still overall a very strong album. The new Dethklok album, "The Dethalbum II," is....ok. I feel like most of it was written to try and be a real band as opposed to a cartoonish mockery of a real band. It is not nearly as ridiculous as the first album and therefore less memorable and also the vocals are not as good (too many effects bcs he is trying to sing but it isn't pulled off as well as the guttural growls). The new Alice in Chains album is...forgettable. I don't know if it just lacks because Layne Stanly is no longer the vocalist (due to his unfortunate...well...death nearing a decade ago), or if Jerry Cantrell is just loosing his edge, but the songs are droning and hollow where once they were filled with a dirty and gloomy fire. The Dethklok album at least came with videos; the new Alice in Chains album just comes with disappointment.

Rounding back to my original point though...GO TO MY GIRLFRIEND'S FREAKING GALLERY EXHIBITION ALREADY!!! More info at [link]

Shit. I kinda want to go play more Symphony of the Night. Ahh killing vampires and demons...how fun you are. **dreamy, far-away look**

~fin

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/26948520/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/26948520/ Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:28:01 PDT
- Work goes well. I am a data entry wizzard.

- Girlfriend is awesome. I love getting to see her sculptures for her showing in Berlin that will be coming up in October. Damn I wish I could go see the instillation and all.

- Illustrated a children's book my aunt and cousin (both teachers) wrote. Then are starting to look for literary agents so hopefully something will come of that eventually (ie: it getting published in some fashion). There are some concept sketches in my scraps thingy on here.

- Haven't been burned alive by the CA wildfires thus far. Thankfully they would have to burn through most of LA to get to me as I am about as close to the ocean as one can get while still retaining a little pocket money.

- Tattoo is still awesome. *Badtaste rocks.

- Went for a week long trip to visit family and friends in Knoxville (best friend lives there now) and MI (family and rest of friends there). I just got back from that. It was awesome and it was great going to my friend Theresa's wedding and seeing everyone there too. Awww..

- Unfortunately, the wedding was the same day as my band getting to open for George Clinton...which meant that they played the show without me. Apparently it went pretty well though. Next time Adam, next time.

- My friend June's band CLANDESTINE if freaking amazing. Go listen to their stuff at this link [link]

- Posed for drawings for CREEPY #2. I'm the main character in the story drawn by Jason Shawn Alexander (it started off issue #1 and wraps up in issue #3). He's a pretty swell guy and good friends with my GF. Turns out she's pretty hip with all the awesomely talented folk in the art scene here in LA which is pretty damn cool. (I also got to be in DEAD IRONS #4 as a cultist who kills himself. It's pretty damn sweet).

- I MUST own the new Batman game. My computer is ballzy enough to handle it so why the hell not?

Screw re-reading what I wrote for errors. Sleep time. **zonk**

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/24402824/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/24402824/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:15:44 PDT
So I was listening to music, eating dinner, and chatting with my girlfriend on the computer when I heard a fire-truck "WHOOP!" I peaked out my bedroom window and saw lights reflecting off of my neighbor's house. I wandered out into the living room and there was a firetruck parked out front, an ambulance, and cops everywhere. Jordan wandered out of his room too (he had been practicing guitar) and we walked outside to see what was up. First thing I noticed was the tracks of blood down the sidewalk in front of our house leading to a group of people huddled around something. Then I noticed the larger puddle of blood and a bloody hand sticking out from between the gaggle of paramedics. Serious WTFM?!?!? Our neighbor came out and said that someone got shot and we chatted with her for a short bit while they got the guy on a gurney and into the ambulance. They threw a pile of bloody clothes (which they had cut off of him) into a plastic bag which afforded a really good view of the blood pools. In an attempt to not get too near the blood and/or evidence we did not cross the sidewalk to get a better view of things but just kinda looked over the bushes and all on our tip-toes. I went back inside to get shoes and a hoodie on (figured no need to accidentally step into anything without foot coverings)and then Jordan and I went and talked to our neighbor on the other side (who luckily had just sold his house this morning). He said that he heard a bang, though it wasn't like any gunshot he or his wife had heard before (she had grown up in the inner city of LA)and that then they heard someone yelling for an ambulance. Upon combing my memory I vaguely recall hearing someone shout something although I do not remember hearing a bang at all; either way, I must have just dismissed the yelling as someone being loud as one normally would if not paying too much attention.

Apparently there have been some weird things going on the past few days. Jordan says he got freaked out early this morning at around 4am bcs he thought he heard someone tap his window a few times and our neighbor found a used condom in his yard this morning. Anyways, the cops found two guys wandering about that didn't live around here and were questioning them in front of our house and so despite being massively interested, Jordan and I decided it would be a good idea to go in and lock the door just in case anyone decided to do something really stupid; basically I have no desire to get shot or accosted in any way and we all know people do stupid shit when they are scared. The cops have been combing the street and bushes looking for a weapon for a while now to no avail and one just came and asked us a few questions abt 10 minutes ago. We asked what happened and he said that it appears a group of guys were hanging out in front of our house by the street and a car drove up. Some words were exchanged and someone fired a gun into the victim. Everyone scattered and one of the neighbors called 911. From the blood on the sidewalk it looks like he got shot in front of our neighbor's house and ran past our house and our other neighbor's house. At that point he turned around and staggered back to where he had been shot and fell into the gutter at the side of the road. That is where he was being attended to when we came outside.

So yes, currently I am in a crime scene. They cordoned off a whole chunk of the street with "crime scene" tape (a part of the street that includes our house and both mine and Jordan's cars) and are trying to piece together exactly what happened. Such horrible excitement! That's life in the big city for ya! I suppose I'm just glad that I got home early today and that I didn't have to go anywhere tonight.

I wonder how much harder that will make it for the owner of this house to rent it out starting in June after we move out?

Thank you for visiting CRIME SCENE THEATER.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/23580246/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/23580246/ Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:54:23 PST
Der? So I got up and went. Basically I have no more weekends until the end of May, but fuckitall cause I'mma have FUNZ! So I met my friend there and we walked over to the place where the guilds all got up and tried to entice you to join them. Myself and another girl that my friend Vannassa met when she first arrived watched them together and then they had all the new people come up and say their names and what group they might plan to join. I walked out, said my name, said, "I only moved from MI a few months ago and I have no bloody clue what I want to do here yet, but I sing and can do back bends!" At this point I bent backwards and almost touched my head to the ground and then walked back into the mass of new people. I was approached by 4 separate guilds, two of them being ones I thought looked interesting. The other new girl my friend knew and myself both ended up auditioning to join the improve group that tries to hawk disgusting food-stuffs and that does the really vulgar sketch show. Auditions were fun. They made us sing songs and change character while still singing, and then they had us infomercial random shit from the guild master's purse. Oddly enough I got got prolly the most compliments out of anyone from the other auditioners, and when I was talking to the people already in the guild they all were like "dude, you were freaking hilarious and your pitch was so original." So now I am a Monger. Oh god the horrible jokes, random randomness, and sporadic singings of Avenue Q songs that continued through the rest of the day. My guild-mates all appear to be horrible, awesome people with twisted senses of humor. I am apparently the only one in the whole thing who has no theater experience, but they don't seem to be holding that against me.

Now I'm gonna shower and then my friend Ver (go check out her great sculptures at [link] ) is picking me up and we are going to go hit up an art gallery opening this evening. Yay fun new friends!

PS: IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE BAND I SING FOR [link] PLAY THIS COMING FRIDAY LET ME KNOW!!!! $12 tickets and it is at the Whiskey A GoGo in West Hollywood. It will be damned fun so you should come.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/23334704/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/23334704/ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:46:20 PST
My basic plans for the day involved making waffles and killing things in Bioshock. I did make waffles (mmmmmm....waffles), but my evening veered wildly from the anachronistic bloodshed of that steampunk wonderland. I'm glad it did, despite me still being too sick to be too active (hence no Bar Sinister to hang out with my friend Forest).

Earlier today Linda Strawberry, a musical artist whom I enjoy, posted a thingy on facebook about an art gallery opening one of her friends Natalia Fabia was having this evening called "Hooker Dream-Escape." There were two paintings shown on the link she gave and they were damn good - really damn good. I hemmed and hawed for a while, but my best friend metephorically poked me in the eye and told me I should get out of the house for a wee bit. She probubly would have shoved me out the door had she been anywhere close, but, sadly, she lives in the hills of TN these days and, though she be tall, her reach is not that long.

So I made the drive from Atwater to Culver City and wandered on into the art gallery. Freaking AMAZING paintings everywhere. The vibrant portraits definitly fit under the given title of "Dream-Escape." I was sad that I hadn't cajolled anyoen into coming with me so that I could talk abt them to anyone, but such is life. Shortly before I left I saw Linda Strawberry walk in and briefly pestered her (which I felt bad abt).

There was also an amazingly beautiful girl there and I had an overwhelming desire to give her a compliment on her stunningness despite my near crippling shyness. So I did. I went up and told her that I just wanted to let her know how pretty she was. The women next to her was like, "Isn't she? She looks like she should be in one of her own paintings." That's right folks, I walked up to the bell of the ball, the girl whose party it was, and complimented her on her appearence and not on her artwork...because I am a giant re-re. **face palm** She was then immediately mobbed by a number of people so I hung out for a short bit longer until I was able to apologize for not knowing who she was and also to compliment her on her art work. Then I wandered back to my car singing "Aenema" by Tool and felt like the most ridiculous tool in the shed.

I came home and popped in TOKYO GORE POLICE while consuming a $5 footlooooong. Holy fucking hell was that movie great. And by great I mean terrible. And amazing. And...gallons...GALLONS of fake blood and guts used in that movie. It was so outragous it wasn't even disgusting. The basic storyline (if one can even call it that) is that there are criminals who grow weapons from any injury. Some highlights without giving too much away: quad-amputee sex slave that walks around on swords, a guy gets his penis bitten off and grows a cannon there, a girl gets her lower half blow off and grown the largest vagina dentata EVER, a girl gets her chest slit open and grows lactating acid boobs, a girl (literally) turned into a fetish chair pisses on a room full of S&M freaks. The twisted suicide commercials and crazy cop-lady dispatcher were hillarious also. One last thing - eyeball rockets. God bless the Japanese.

What a strange and entertainingly random evening. Time now to read some sci-fi.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/23181633/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/23181633/ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:31:07 PST [link] has some songs up with me singing on (all but one) of them. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Please come?

In other news, I turned 26 recently (wohoo haven't died yet) and spent the day home sick from work with the DEATH PLAGUE. Said plague is still lingering, although I was able to sing a little on my 2 hour drive home from work so that is a good sign; also I can sometimes breath out of my nose again. WOOT!

I also picked up copies of Tokyo Gore Police and Wall-E with birthday moneys and also bought a new Wacom Bamboo (sooo much bigger than my Graphire was). Spliffy.

In final, Spore and World of Goo are addictive.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/22945902/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/22945902/ Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:46:20 PST
So I found out about the LA version of it only a week ago and scrambled to get together a passable Victorian-esque outfit without spending oodles of cash. I decided to go as a lady because, well, the clothes are more fun. ^_^

Anywho, my friend Forest was the only other person I knew who was going, but just before the ball she bailed out bcs she'd worked 75 hours this week and today is her birthday so she didn't want to be sick on it. Luckily the other people in the ballroom dance basics class I went to the past two Saturdays were there so I kinda knew people.

Upon walking into the venue I heard some really cool music from down the staircase that lead to the bathroom. Was a band performing called Agent Ribbons (wwwmyspace.com/agentribbons). I enjoyed them muchly. Wandered to the room where they were selling all sorts of period garb and ogled the clothes which were all too expensive for me to afford before heading into the ballroom.

The Tower Theater is, as one girl called it last night, an Elegant Dump. This fits the theme well, especially with large scale Edward Gorey art pieces all over the place. There was a absinthe bar in the ballroom and the dj (who spun both ball music, modern Gothic music, and the occasional Dresden Dolls, Abney Park, Gogol Bordello, and Dr Steel song) was stationed in a balcony above the stage. It was freaking sweet. They had contortionists, odd musical acts, burlesque dancers, Victorian themed dance troupes, circus performers, live ballroom music, an operatic Latino singer, and Edward Gorey children's fables acted out to music.

I just would like to interject, dear GOD the outfits were awesome: corsets as far as the eye can see, steampunk, Victorian ball gowns and tuxedos, pirates and commodores, and all sorts of other fun get-ups. Lots of pretty people wearing them too.

I tried to do the tango with one of the girls from the ballroom dancing class, but the floor was so packed that we gave up on the endeavor. I did waltz with another girl later on though, so the class was put to use a little. I actually danced with a number of pretty girls during the evening which is never a bad thing. There was one girl named Cat that dances a lot like me and we ended up dancing towards the end of the evening to "Herr Dresselmier's Doll" by Abney Park which was fun. At the end of the night I was dancing around with two girls from the ballroom dancing class and their group of friends that they made at the dance. By the time the night was over I was pooped but so terribly happy I went. I did scarf down a few pieces of pizza and abt a liter and a half of water when I got home though. Veddy, veddy tired Adam got to bed at the same time I normally get up for work. Am definitely going again next year.

Pics from the Ball are here (didn't feel like posting them all again)
[link]

Out to Malediction Society tonight for my friend's birthday party. Huzzah goth clubs. I wonder if I'll get to sleep before I head off to work at 5am tomorrow?

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/22344673/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/22344673/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:40:25 PST
Anywho, I took my Best Buy gift cards and went and purchased BIOSHOCK (PC) and ODIN SPHERE (PS2). Spent a good part of the day playing those. ODIN SPHERE = pretty in the normal sense of the word. BIOSHOCK = F***ING PRETTY in my messed up sense of the word; so freaking twisted and I'm really not even that far into it yet (hey, my butt goes to sleep quickly and then I have to go move around). In addition to BIOSHOCK I also installed the games SPORE, SAM & MAX: Season 1, and ON THE RAIN-SLICK PRECIPICE of DARKNESS: Episode 1 (ie: the PENNY ARCADE RPG). Haven't gotten to try SPORE yet, but the other two games make me laugh out loud at times. Ahhh...twisted PENNY ARCADE humor. So yeah, ringing in the new year with plenty of digital, screwed-up violence and bathroom humor. Sentient juicer robots that...uh...violate fruit; HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE STORY LINES BASED AROUND THAT!

ps - I am having a hard time deciding whether I want to save the Little Sisters in BIOSHOCK and free them of their parasites, or mercilessly slaughter them for their A.D.A.M. If they weren't little kids it would be a no brainer. Really, it isn't the morality of the issue, it is trying to decide which will have a better pay-off in the end. I'll probably end up going with instant gratification, tear the parasites out of their bodies, and use the A.D.A.M to buy special powers. Heh heh heh...it's fun to be evil sometimes.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/21948004/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/21948004/ Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:50:53 PST
[link]

So yes, read it. Agree or disagree as you will. I personally feel that, if Jesus were here today, he'd be at the front of the parade wearing a big "LGBTA Ally" pin and waving a flag that says "Love is Love." But then that's, you know, the impression that I always got of the guy going to church every week and reading the Bible from cover to cover a few times while growing up.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/21446074/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/21446074/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:46:01 PST
[link]

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/21351578/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/21351578/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:13:13 PST [link] abt 2:40 in to the video you can see my head in the middle of the screen. ^_^

At about 3pm I got a text message from my housemate Jordan that there was going to be a Prop 8 Protest Rally in West Hollywood this evening and we made plans to meet up (him from work after picking up some friends and myself from my house). I got to the location for the rally at about 6:30pm and groups were already gathering along the edges of Santa Monica Blvd. Immediately I regretted not making a sign, but what can ya do. A man was walking around passing out candles and he gave me one which I lit off of another person's candle. Everyone cheered whenever anyone drove by and honked in support and eventually Jordan and his friends arrived. After a short bit of people blocking the intersection (which I felt was not a good version of civil disobedience) everyone migrated to a stage where a men's choir was singing. By this time my candle was pretty much kaput and my glove and arm were rather coated in wax. I would spend the rest of the evening absent-mindedly trying to peel candle wax off of my arm and glove.

After the choir stopped a woman took the stage and began an impassioned speech. Several times she had to pause as shouts of "Equal rights!" and "Yes we can!" drown her out. She was followed by a firey little Jewish woman who I though gave the best speech of the night and then a pastor spoke after her. "Those who support hatred over love don't know the same Jesus that I do," he stated to a round of applause. There were speakers from the city council, from equal rights campaigns, religious organizations, and different ethnic groups and, in general, the speeches were pretty good and promoted a sense of togetherness and hope. The one speech that bothered me was whe the opening speaker got back up on the stage; her second speech was blatently anti-Mormon and blaimed them for the passage of the bill. Granted, they may have, as a group, given the most monetary support for the "Yes on 8" campaign, but they were not the ones that "passed" the bill; it was passed by people of all races, creeds, genders, and ages in CA just as it was opposed by the same. I will NOT be attending the rally tomorrow at the Morman temple because I feel that it is unfairly targeting them.

Following the speeches I helped one of Jordan's friends hand out papers that were in support of a community blog about the issue that she has started (obamaisamerica.blogspot.com) and then the crowd began to move. As the mass of protesters began their march around West Hollywood more and more of the street became filled with people shouting in defence of gay marriage. I'll be honest, it impeaded traffic and prolly made some people mad, but overall those cars of people caught in the flow were honking, shouting, and high-fiving protesters in support. People came down from their homes and out from restaurants, bars, and shops to add their voices and cheers to the passing masses. Signs waved, people heald hands, and, in general, everyone stayed in the proper traffic lanes and listened to directions given by the police. I was kinda pissed at the people that intentionally stopped a bus that was just trying to make its rounds and banged on the front windows - that type of misdirected civil disobedience harms one's cause bcs it starts to create a tension and a fear. By and large it was a very peacefull protest though and I am very glad that I was a part of it. As we wrapped around and came back up Santa Monica Blvd and reached where my car was I figured it was time that I headed out. It was around 10pm and I had promised a coworker that I would come to his birthday celebration at a sports bar back in Hollywood (which was fun...I sang "Man in the Box" and "Bulls on Parade" and eventually he got real drunk from everyone buying him booze and had to go home). When I got to the bar there were images on TV and the protest was still making its way down the streets of Hollywood after splintering into several smaller groups. A bunch of my coworkers (and all of the girls working at the bar) were upset bcs they had work and weren't able to go to the rally, but knowing that so many people are against the discriminatory ammendment is pretty damn cool.

It was my first protest so I sadly didn't think to bring a camera, but I did get some video on my phone of everyone marching. There were similar rallies going on all over CA this evening. Let's hope that this all sparks more discussion and leads to more people becoming open to equal rights for all Americans. I'm happy that I got to be there in the thick of it all tonight.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/21329836/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/21329836/ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:46:05 PST
"I'm actually crying," she stated.

"Me too," I replied.

An almost indescribable feeling of pride and hope welled inside of me as Obama walked out on stage to address those assembled in Chicago and around thelevisions and radios across the nation. Tears flowed again down my cheeks as he spoke, as he talked of an American dream, as he humbly spoke of a future that was just dawning on America. The voice of America came out and spoke in voluminous tones of every color, creed, age, orientation, and gender. The voice of the people cried out in hope and articulated a need for change that it saw embodied in the warm, friendly smile and the easy yet athoratative voice of a young politition. The hope and dream of America said, "yes we can," and elected one Barak Obama to be our President of the United States of America.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/21248605/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/21248605/ Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:38:31 PDT
As I was driving home last night through Silverlake I passed by a group of people waving signs. These signs were in support of Proposition 8. Proposition 8 is basically the CA equivalent to 2004's Proposition 2 in MI (ie: Define marriage in the State Constitution as between a man and a woman). It made me both sad and angry to see this. I am all for people being able to have their own ideas and opinions, but the concept of constitutionalizing bigotry, the concept of stripping people of their rights because of fear and hatred...it really bothers me. I remember election day 2004. I was standing in the lobby of the UGLY (U of M's undergraduate library) watching state polling predictions come in. I was dumbfounded that so many people voted for Bush's second term, but I was absolutely horrified that there were enough ignorant people in MI to pass Proposition 2. If the church wants to remain in the dark ages and cling to the conception that marriage is only between a man and a woman...well that is their prerogative as a religious organization I suppose, but the state should not be limited solely by religious restrictions. I truly believe that a couple should not be denied the same rights as another simply because they are of the same gender.

Now, in an even more despicable move, there are commercials in CA claiming that the concept of same gender marriage is "hurting the education of our children." I am sorry, but this is complete bullshit. The groups pushing for Prop 8 keep portraying the situation as if gay marriage was being forced upon everyone and that soon all the children will become gay. It simply isn't true. No one is being forced to become gay. People are just being allowed to be who they really are and to love who they really love regardless of gender. Gay marriage doesn't hurt anyone, but taking away the right does.

In closing, if you live in CA and are of voting age...VOTE NO ON PROP 8.

ps - HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/20874197/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/20874197/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:18:44 PDT [link]

This (while from a left wing on-line publication so it obviously has a bit of bias) is a very interesting article, and does hit on a very important subject. There is a link there to a pretty good speech by AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka at a rally as well and an article that shows, to be honest, just how far America has yet to go in the battle against racism. [link] It is interesting to see people say, "now, I'm not racist but..." and then go on to make a horribly racist comment. There is a great song from the Broadway musical "Avenue Q" that comes to mind whenever I see or hear comments like this. One line goes, "if we all could just admit / that we are racist a little bit / even though we know that it is wrong / maybe it would help us / get along." So many people are truly afraid that a black man might be president that they refuse to back the candidate who shares their views, and some so paralyzed that they are even refusing to vote (because they don't want to back McCain either).

As an aside, people keep saying "oh, Obama is Muslim," "I hear he wants to make Islam the national religion," or other such ridiculous comments. Firstly, he's a freaking Christian and has been a member of a Christian church for 20 years, so stop being dumb. Secondly (and, in reality, more importantly) who cares even if he WAS Muslim? IT SHOULDN'T MATTER! Being Muslim doesn't mean you support Bin-Ladin's ideals any more than being Christian means you support David Koresh's. EXTREMISTS PEOPLE! Every belief and religion has them and most people WHO IDENTIFY WITH THOSE SAME RELIGIONS don't agree with them. I've had a number of Muslim friends over the years and, ya know what, they were pretty damn cool and much better people than many ardent Christians that I know. I would also like to point out here that the core belief of Christianity is TO LOVE and that doesn't just mean to only love people that are the same as you but to love everyone for their differences, similarities, faults, and flaws. Ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic standing, past mistakes, etc... - none of these should matter. Is it truly possible to love everyone? No. We are human and not one of us is without imperfections, but love IS something to strive for.

Basically, people are afraid, and, you know what, I'm afraid too. I'm afraid that hate and fear will continue to blind people, and that our country will continue to make horrible choices based on those two emotions. We have to recognize our own faults and think past knee-jerk fear and hatred else we will always be tripping with scales covering our eyes.


ps - I got my away ballot in the mail yesterday so that I can do my part and vote. Hopefully I won't be horrified with the election outcome like I was 4 years ago. Go Obama!

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/19714684/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/19714684/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:38:22 PDT
Sooooo I was looking back through my gallery today and ran across a pic I did of Johnny Depp like 5 years ago and thought to myself "that isn't half bad. I should do more realism and get better at it." I am, however, fundamentaly lazy when it comes to things like that. Here is my proposition: I will do 5 drawings (I am moving across the country in a month and don't want to completely go insain) based on pictures for people. It will be the first 5 people that ask me to do one, friend or no. If you have a link to the image you want done that works or if you want to email me the image then I will send you a Note with my email address in it for you to email me said picture.

Some info:
~ Image to work from should be an actual photo and NOT a drawing. This is for my own betterment in realism and not to make fanart for your characters (unless you have a photo of someone dressed as a character. I will most definitly draw a picture of somone dressed as Sephiroth if he pulls that shit off well).

~ If the image is pornographic I will not do it. Nudity (guy or girl) is fine, but keep it something, you know, without penetration and whatnot. If I feel the image is inapropriate then I will say so.

~ If you have something that you specifically would like added INTO the photo (Mini-Moose, a cute widdow awien about to destwoy the earth, loomingly suggestive tentiles, etc...) I may accomidate. Discression is up to me.

~ I hate backgrounds and have the artistic license to NOT do the background in the image if the main focus of the shot is people...or if I get real lazy.

~ There is no specific timeframe for this but I will try to get them done without too much lag time. As I said...moving across the country in less than a month.

~ All pictures WILL be posted on here.

~ When all is said and done I will mail you the finished drawing although I would ask that you help out with shipping charges if it becomes exhorbitant. Unfortunitally I am most definitly NOT made of money.

~ As I said, I am only going to do 5 of these, though at some point I may be able to be persuaded to do more. Who knows? I am, afterall, suseptable to bribery by video games, cookies, artwork, and cold hard cash.

Toodles all!


-------------Update--------------
Wow...I have to admit that it is taking longer than I thought to get 5 requests. **shrugs**

People that have contacted me thus far:
~deveneros - not sure what picture yet
*Lateral-thinker - image of her
~felrokker - image of her

That is it so far folks.

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Go. Just go. I don't care how old you are, if you enjoy laughing DO IT!!!!

For those who still need more coaxing I will toss out these added words:
Joss Whedon
NPH
Nathan Fillion (Mal from Firefly)
Supervillain musical

Gogogogogo and do it before midnight on July 20th bcs it will cease being streamed then.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/19226888/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/19226888/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:32:49 PDT
As a consiquence my band is breaking up though. That makes me sad so I have been sitting here all evening listening to our rough recordings of songs. :/

"The Dark Night" comes out on the 18th of this month. Hellz yeah!

Yeah, that's about it.

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As I don't want to go that route I am urging everyone to aquaint themselves with knowledge about this bill and, if you are like me and are concerned about it, take some sort of action whether it be to create artwork against the bill (if you do, send me a link), sign petitions [link] , write to you local representatives, or even contact your local news agencies.

[link] is a very good place to go with LOTS of info on the bill.

[link] has a podcast about the bill that does a pretty good job of explaining things.

And, thanks to :idevCypherx: being awsome and finding such random things as this for me to run with, here is an actual House of Representatives hearing on the bill from last month. [link]

Maybe we, as an artistic community, can actually stop poking at each other and bickering like children for once to take a stand on something.

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Hope you had a nice Zombie Jesus day!

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/17064599/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/17064599/ Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:05:00 PST
I'll admit that I didn't want to come back.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/16834418/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/16834418/ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:51:32 PST
To celebrate my birthday I worked for 13.5 hours waiting tables. Ah wells. My upcominc trip to San Francisco for GDC and Wondercon is basically how I am celebrating my birthday anyhow.

Oh, btw, Michigan is officially as cold as the 9th circle of Hell. Bugger.

Currently reading:
Only Revolutions by Mark Z Danielewski
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Dreamsongs Vol 1 by George RR Martin
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Vol 1
A stack of comic books I bought the other day

I likes to read.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/16467094/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/16467094/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:13:12 PST The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden. I loved it. I loved how the tales wove in and out of each other. I loved the characters and the way she bent traditional fairytales. I loved the way she invented new ones. I was hooked and had to pick up the second volume The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice. I've been trying to work alot (the whole end of December and begining of January I've not really been able to get any subbing stuff till this week due to breaks and whatnot so I have no moneys) so I wasn't able to tear through them as quickly as I otherwise would have. Still, I was able to make a concerted effort this evening and I finished up the tale. And what a tale it was.

Recently I was raving about The Raw Shark Texts and how amazing a novel it was. The Orphan's Tales is by far its better. Time and again the dark humor and moving stories grabbed my heart and squeezed. I was brought to tears a handful of times and I followed the threads of tales woven into the book. They have everything you might want in a fairytale: poisenings, patricide, quests, heroes and heroines, grotesqueries, plagues, stars, murdered gods, poets, pirates, mechanations, kings and queens, wizards and witches, cities that blow on the wind, living corpses, sex, and sorrow by the gallons - all told by a cold and lonely, outcast girl with the words inked upon her eyelids. It is beautiful and worthy of anyone's time to read. Hell, even with the violence, nudity, and occasional sex, I would probubly still read it to a child if I had one (heck, it's no worse than the original fairytales were back in the days of the Grimm brothers). It touches that same small spot that "Pan's Labyrinth" did. It touches the spot in our souls where we know that djinn exist, where we hear the songs of manticore on the wind, and where we too, like the sultan's son, want nothing more than to swoon to a voice telling us that magic crackles behind our closed eyes.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/16215364/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/16215364/ Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:12:31 PST
So to recap - migraine making me feel like I am dying but working on well endowed, zombie-fied hospital worker while unwittingly being exposed to horrible cinema.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/15741180/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/15741180/ Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:57:04 PST
In other news...my feet hurt like hell. One of my friends in UofM's dance school invited me out to a barn dance (yup...a barn dance) that some of her classmates where throwing. There was a live band, a lady teaching us all how to do the dances, and about 35 people there. So much fun. Because they had it in one of the dance studios though we couldn't wear shoes. Apparently the callesus I had built up on my feet from years of wandering around Ann Arbor without much in the way of footwear have gone away in my year of having to drive into town for work. Huuuuuge blisters on my feetses, but it was worth it. (Goofy) dancing, apple cider, doughnuts, and fun people = a good time.

In other news, I love my band. We started writing another new song at practice this week. Turns out my guitarist wrote a riff that is three measures of 4/4, eight measures of 3/4, and two measures of 2/4 with different meeters for each part. It sounds amazingly thrashy and fun though and I decided to put a bunch of midrange harsh melodic vocals over it with a smattering of low growls. Tasty tasty jam (as are all of our songs if I do say so myself). I do enjoy that we have gotten more thrashy recently as it has resulted in more mosh pits at our shows also and I've been trying to vary up my vocals more as well (even have one song that is entirely melodic vocals over really heavy but lilting guitars) and the poly rythmes on the drums and between the instruments are getting more intricate without sticking out as well. So yes, once again, I love my band. [link] (although we still don't have new recordings up).

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/15426969/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/15426969/ Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:18:38 PST
Been a bit sick. Spent the day relaxing and shopping. Watched the movie "Reincarnation" which was sufficiently creepy what with the little dead girl and all. Also dropped far too much money on a fitted button-up dress shirt for substitute teaching (oh yeah, I don't recall if I've mentioned that I am doing that now). I got sick of the fact that dress shirts always look stupid on me and wanted a fitted one. The only place I could find a nice one was at Express; I feel as though a little shard of my soul died upon walking in there and another died when I purchased said shirt (though it does look good I must say). To make myself feel better about my frivolous expenditure, I made milkshakes for my roommate and I while we watched TVo-ed shows this evening (The Office, Scrubs, and a bunch of Frasier episodes). Mmmmm...chocolate milkshakes.

I really should have gotten more done today. Huh.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/15080432/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/15080432/ Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:24:33 PDT
Mnyesss. I really don't know what to post here. I've been reading during most of my free time (got to work my way through the knee-high stack of unread books that I have aquired as of late). When not reading I sporatically work on one of two drawings (one is photoshop painting, the other is a pencil drawing). Also have been playing Persona 3 for Playstation 2. Mmmm....goodness. There is a certain draw to a videogame where your characters repeatedly shoot themselves in the head as a catalyst for their summons. Granted they don't ACTUALLY kill themselves as the "guns" they use are called "ejectors" but the idea still entertains me. The fact that every time you go to a floor it is completely different is both intresting and annoying as all get-up and balancing the social and school pressures in the game while still kicking butt in the twisted school halls at night is not always easy. Also the imposed deadline of 365 game-days to beat the game is a nice twist.

I went to go decorate my room today and realized that before I can really do that I need to aquire two frames (one for my David Mack KABUKI print and another for the charcoal drawing my friend =cypherx did for me) and also I need to aquire hooks for my swords and knives. All I was able to put up was my Giger poster. Well, I do have my twisted toys all over the place already, but I don't consider those decorations...they are necesities.

Was all set to put my computer together and get it up and running and then I realized that I had bought the wrong sized LED fans. Doh!!! Need to get two 80mm ones instead of the two 120mm fans that I errently bought. Ah wells.

Today was a pretty day outside. I feel that it will be one of the last that we see here in Michigan for a while. Sadly its beauty was marred by the fact that I had to spend $330 to fix my car today (totaling at $500 in 7 days to replace tires, get it checked, then get the replacement parts put on it). Ugh...moneys go bye bye. Oh...soon it will be cold enough to regularly wear my sweet $15 pea coat full length trench I procured and also to wear my squeeky skull scarf that my friend ~thepixiethief made for me for Christmas last year and the horned hat she made me the year before. I lurves that scarf; tis so cute.

On a happy note my band had two great shows this past week. Huzzah!

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/14695533/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/14695533/ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:50:40 PDT
Have you read that book? You should. It's wierd, because, normally when I finish reading something I prattle on about this and that and how good this part was. I can't do that. Not because it wasn't a good book, in fact it was phenominal, but because it is such a personal book. It is like looking into someone's soul and seeing the naked child inside. The most surreal part of the experience is the moment that you discover that the child has your eyes, your mouth, your face.

To be blunt...I am a wallflower. I am not the main character in the story, but I can see him in myself. Perhaps that is what marks a good author - the ability to project one's character into the reflection of the reader. Or perhaps it is because I am that awkward child; the one that often listens instead of talking; the one that longs to belong somewhere; the one that sees happyness but walks away from it because at that moment all he can think about is how much others need to find that happyness instead of him. Always observing life but rarely participating in it. I always wanted a teacher like Bill. I always wanted that feeling of belonging like Charlie had with Sam and Patrick. Yet, like Charlie, perhaps I overlook the instances in life where I have just those things. I have felt infinate once and it was the greatest feeling I have ever known.

I believe it was between my freshman and sophmore years of highschool at CCOYM (conference council on youth ministries) camp. After firebowl each night we had about a half hour before we had to be back in our cabins. I walked by myself out to the field at the edge of the campgrounds and lay down looking up. It was beautiful. The stars were bright, the dome of the endless night hung above me in transparent layors of darkness. I breathed and I staired at the heavens while the ground fell away beneath me and I was one with the infinate existance sliding between the layors of night and stars. I was infantismally small and insignificant, but I felt a part of the throbbing pulse of the universe, every atom in my being humming in harmony with the songs of the heavens and the beats of the heart of the world. At midnight the bell rung, breaking the spell, and I had to hurry to get back to my cabin, but since that day I have kept that feeling in my heart. Many times since have I tried to regain that place and soar, and a few times I have felt the wings of the boudnless gently caress my longing heart, but always my mind pulls me back to the hard ground upon which my head lays and I remain an observer as opposed to a participant in the flow of existance. If I have ever felt the touch of the divine, it was then. It was the most spiritual moment of my life, my moment of transendence and Nirvana found in the fields of northern Michigan. It was beautiful.

That is the moment that briefly filled my heart when Charlie was driving between Patrick and Sam through the fall night. Many of his other experiences in the book are different than mine (I don't smoke, I've never tried any drugs, I've never been molested, I've never been commited), but when I read the book I felt that this child burgening on self discovery could have been me so very easily if I had been born to a different family. Environment is the substantial difference between this character and myself. When I read I become the characters that speak, I feel what they feel, and they become me in turn. After the book ends I sling back into myself. With this book I haven't returned to myself because I never left; I just remembered.

Please go read this book. It is short and will not take long at all to finish. As you go I will leave you with this passage. I will not tell you in what chapter it occurs, only that you will discover it when you make it to a certain page. It goes as follows.

"But mostly, I was crying because I was suddenly very aware of the fact that it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite."

Thank you for reading, and good night.
~Adam

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]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/12378373/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/12378373/ Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:31:58 PDT
115 hours of Fina Fantasy XII. Humourously, I took a break from trying to beat some of the final hunts and espers and went to go through the next part of the story line. Then the game ended. What the hell? It was so wierdly political and not really final fantasy esque. And damn sudden. Ah well. Sadly I lost interest in getting the rest of the hunts and espers. Meh...

Shadow of the Colossus. Sooooo pretty. Horendously frustrating at times, but you feel like a bad mother (shut your mouth) every time you bring down one of the suckers. The ending is really wierd, tragic, and good too which is a nice change ( **ahem** american mcgee's alice). Sadly, there are whole chunks of the map that you never even need explore; that should have been solved with a few more monsters. Still, for a game that is minimal on explination and story, has only 16 enemies in the whole game, and really can be beaten in a few short hours once you figure out how to get to and defeat each colossus, it is damn good. And pretty. Don't forget pretty.

Devil May Cry (1, 2, and 3). Honestly am having trouble getting into that series. The voice acting and general plot are freaking atrocious. I put it aside for a bit to beat other games.

God of War. Just took it out of its thin plastic shell. Ooooo.... **disturbing grin**

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. I lost my memory card with my saved game on it and am just now summing up the desire to take another crack at it. Stupid lost 10 hours of gameplay.

Doom 3. Ya know, I'm at the freaking end of the game, I should just finish it and be done finally.

Oh, internet is back up at my house so I should post a drawing soon once I get of my but and hook my scanner up. That means MSN messenging friends again and not having to walk to the library to check email. Woot!!!

Also reading The Life of Pi. Not all that thrilled with it yet, although the tiger did just tear the hyena to shreds and that was pretty cool.

Yes kiddies...this is what you do with yourself when you finish college. Keep working a crappy job barely acruing a savings and stay up late playing video games because you don't have homework and can't afford to go out anywhere. Fun fun fun.

Hmmm...I do believe my laundry is done.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/12029015/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/12029015/ Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:03:14 PST
Good books that I have read in the past 3 weeks:
House of Chains
The Good Faries of New York
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
The Screwtape Letters
The Timetraveler's Wife

The Screwtape letters were allright, but the rest of the books were ama-za-zing. A combination of the reading and also listening to Poe: Haunted while walking to and from work today inspired me to start drawing too. Yaaay! Hopefully I will have something new to show everyone before too long.

Oh, also, I picked up the new Kittie album, Funeral for Yesterday. It's not bad at all. Still not nearly as good as Spit was, but I like the somewhat punk vibe that some of the songs have. Plus Morgan actually has decided to sing at times again instead of just screaming which is always a plus.

Stumbled across a new band online the other day called Achilles Fall. They are pretty sweat sounding and the girl that sings has a very pretty voice. Check them out. [link]

Oh, also, my band has some newish recordings of songs on our myspace page. [link] Go give them a listen too.

Later days!

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/11380929/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/11380929/ Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:00:33 PST
Yeah, much excitement.

Last few days were fun but ended up with a dissapointment. Such is life.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/11217295/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/11217295/ Wed, 27 Dec 2006 23:29:40 PST pixiethief last night I used her anime knowledge and picked up a series that she had seen a few episodes of called Elfen Lied (which translates to "elf song"). Short and the long is the main character has duel personalities...one that allows for an uber-cutesy love story and the other that necessitates an ultra-violent blood-bath. I was promised gore and it was delivered. Lindsey wasn't too sure how well the plot held up as she only saw the first few episodes.

I just finished watching one of the greatest stories told in animated form. You keep being yanked back and forth between gut churning brutality and heart wrenching sentimentality...and often are caught feeling both at the same time. I almost cried in prettymuch every episode from the last half of the series. I...its hard to write about without giving much away. Immediately you are pulled in by the absolutely stunningly gorgeous impressionist imagery and the beautifully haunting theme song. Then immediately you see a man getting evicerated once the show starts. Ample gore and nudity abound in the anime along with disturbing portrayals of abuse (including pedafilial/mental abuse by one character's step father in a flashback), but after it is all over you realize that they were threds used to weave the tapestry of a story that is as intensly beautiful as the opening imagery and song and as shockingly frightening as the demons that dwell in our souls. If you can stomach the material, I urge you to watch the series.

What makes us into the monsters we can be?

Oh...and happy holidays to all!

Oh...and if you need a belated x-mas gift for anyone go buy a print from my friend =cypherx (or if i suck and typed that wrong she goes by Cypherx on here)

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Happy holidays to all...enoy your gifts that you will be recieving...and try to remember that, while the gifts are cool, it is the people that care enough about you that are what you should be the most happy about having.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/10739633/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/10739633/ Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:18:30 PST
You can check out old and crappy recordings of a few of our songs on [link] (believe me, they've gotten alot better in the interveining 4 months since we decided on short notice to record a live show...including a change in how I scream the chorus of our song Politik so that I don't sound like a muppet). But yes, the next round is on March 11th, 2007 in Detroit, MI so if you are anywhere close to Michigan, keep that date open.

Also, I bought a new car. Vehicular Mobility has been restored!!!!

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/10554517/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/10554517/ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:34:29 PST
On the up side, my Halloween costume from Sat night was so much fun though the blood got all over everything I came close to. Heh...yay Psychotic Butcher costume. Huzzah for upcoming Necromancer costume I will be wearing on Halloween to class, work, and my friend's birthday party.

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/10151718/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/10151718/ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:51:14 PDT
Oh, and I get to go see Tool tonight. **is giddy**

]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/9828877/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/9828877/ Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:07:47 PDT
So apparently in the few weeks I haven't been paying attention DA went and changed again. It has come to my attention that all the pretty pictures that I draw to go with some of my poems are no longer actually displayed with the poems. Hell, I have no idea where they have gone to. Grr...

It is wierd how when one concentrates on one creative outlet in life others tend to go by the wayside a bit. I have been focusing on my band for a while now and I rarely draw anymore. Granted, I doodle wierd little things when I'm at work and bored, but I rarely sit down and complete a whole piece. That kinda makes me sad, but not sad enough to start on one right now. Part of the reason for this is that, when I draw (just like when I read) I become completely immersed in myself and what I am doing. I will lose 8 hours....just lose them. I never HAVE that much time to be able to just lose these days. Ah wells.

Moved into my new house. It is nice, although I as of yet have no bed. At first I was just sleeping on the hardwood floor, but then I broke down and picked up a $12 yoga mat and sleep on that now. Slightly more comfortable. My room is tiny and I have no space for my many many many books and toys and things, but such is life. Maybe I will end up ringing the room with wall shelves to display my action figures and statues on. Heh.

In other news, I have been shopping Best Buy's uber good sales on DVD's lately. Picked up some good stuffs. Also picked up Silent Hill which came out yesterday. Wee!!!! Gotta watch that on my housemate's 50" flatscreen TV with the surround sound going. ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/9358077/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/9358077/ Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:52:02 PDT I do have so many ideas for new pics, but I've just been on such a creative kick in the writing venue lately (which is good for my band but sad for my art gallery). Ah wells. I really do hope you all enjoy!

Oh, and always remember to look at your milk bfr you drink it even if it is new from the store. I didn't today. **shudder** Like watery cottage cheese it was. Milk...why must you dissapoint me so sometimes! ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/9142573/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/9142573/ Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:20:29 PDT ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/8745075/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/8745075/ Thu, 11 May 2006 22:43:29 PDT ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/8230969/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/8230969/ Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:57:51 PST [link] and devwatch her. (btw...that image in her gallery titled "Sweetness" is a very large painting and was the first time she ever used oil paints...I know this bcs I was there and doodle-ing on scraps of paper with a sharpie. seriously, go check it out it is excrushiatingly good).

In my own artsy front, I did a little more work on "Godhead" but due to my exam on friday in my math class, any further progress will have to wait. Damn I'm slow.

Also...V for Vendetta...so good. Gives ideas. NEED TIME FOR CREATION OF IDEAS!!!! grr.... ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/8022801/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/8022801/ Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:26:26 PST [link]

if you can find something cuter...link me. ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7946720/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7946720/ Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:44:12 PST ~Sarah Bettens, All of this Past

If you haven't listened to the last song on the soundtrack for the first Underworld movie...well you should. I actually have had the cd since it was released in stores, yet had never really listened to that song until about a week ago. It is funny how some songs can so accurately describe what we feel.

~Adam ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7851210/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7851210/ Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:35:22 PST ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7842587/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7842587/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 23:44:45 PST
aaaaaalmost 23. heh...im an old man. ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7803711/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7803711/ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:20:38 PST

laters all!!!! ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7759640/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7759640/ Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:39:55 PST please go vote 5's for me!!

[link] will take you to my poem. you can see other people's poems by clicking the "next" button. make sure you read my whole poem by scrolling down! ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7745236/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7745236/ Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:35:20 PST
I could do this for a living...and I just might if things go well.

btw...Sonata Arctica is phenominal live. Phenominal to a mad degree. I must aquire some of their cd's now.

havent gotten much drawing done in a few days. all my free time is consumed by the "A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE" book series. soooo good. you should check it out. ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7680284/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7680284/ Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:51:18 PST [link] and soon we will have an actual webpage we own up and running too.

The Blind Pig show last Tuesday was freaking awsome and we are even more stoked than ever to be playing at Harpo's with Sonata Arctica this coming Saterday. EEEEEEEEE!!!!

Also, i started a new drawing last night. hopefully i get it done bfr too long. its been far too long since ive bee creative on paper.

Laters all!!!!
~Adam ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7503749/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7503749/ Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:30:36 PST
On Tues Jan 17th we will be preforming at the Blind Pig here in Ann Arbor. I believe it is an 18+ show and it will either be free or very inexpensive.

The second show is the one that we are excrutiatingly stoked about. We will be playing on Sat Jan 28th at Harpos in Detroit. At this show we will be opening for Sonata Arctica (I believe the other band playing is called Into Eternity). FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is an all ages show and tickets for can be purchased through us and will cost $10 (13 at the door). If you'd like to help us out by buying a ticket you can contact us through our myspace page [link] . I believe we have a hundred of them to unload and only like 3.5 weeks to do so in.

But yeah, so f**king excited. Also, we posted a song of ours on our site there as well called Wormtale Tongue so go check that out too along with some new pics.

We are also recording a short demo the same week as our Blind Pig show so that will hopefully be available before too long as well.

These shows will definitly be very vital in furthering our musical career so please come out to support us if you can. I am going to go explode from excitement now. Laters! ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7398405/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7398405/ Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:40:28 PST [link] . The name of the song is Wormtale Tongue. Feel free to check it out now or feel free to wait until we get our demo recorded in January (and/or figure out the software more fully).

Laters, and happy holidays to all!!!! ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7172489/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7172489/ Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:24:20 PST
I've also prettymuch memorized the newest SOAD cd in the past week. He he he...I think I have already pissed off/scared half of my town by walking around belting out the songs all the time. Today I took a little break with APC while going to classes to give my vocal chords a bit of a rest (odd that I would ever consider singing like Maynard a rest, but APC Maynard is much more relaxing than Tool Maynard). No fear, however, as tomorrow I shall be back to Screaming like that Demon Serj Tankian and the now very vocally present Daron Malakian.

Yeah, not much drawing been done recently. I did sketch a fabulous dragon head in my Israeli Society class today though. I think I might try and turn it into a full on picture soon. Dunno if I'm going to finish the Warlord sketch that is in my scraps. I kinda lost interest in it already. Its like I have the attention span of a ant on speed. seriously. ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7119152/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7119152/ Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:26:48 PST
Being just before Thanksgiving, we had the traditional Geddes Thanksgiving Dinner as well. This means that my roommates, my former roommates, and a few other mutual friends all get together, make tons of food and desserts, and play boardgames. After I got done with classes for the day I came home and started making chicken curry and also a batch of meatless curry. There ended up being about 20 or so people that were able to make it and the total meal consisted of: mandarine orange salad, hummus and pita, cheesy artichoke dip, sweet potatoes, cheesy potatoes, peanut butter dip w/graham cracker cookies, stuffing, some indian type of chick peas (dal i think?), masala potatoes, pork spring rolls, rice, vegitarian curry, chicken curry, brownies, chocolate desire, coconut lemon squares, and apple pie cheesecake. Mind you, everything that we ate was homemade so it was all freaking amazing. There was also milk, various soda, and white wine to drink (depending on tastes...I personally downed about a half gallon of milk. I love my milk).

After fooding for like an hour and a half we watched House and then got to the board games. We played a very large game of Taboo and followed it up with team Scrabble. People began to thin out after the food was gone and throughout the games as they needed to, but still it was great amounts of fun. It is sad that everyone is dispersing after this year, thus making it the last year for the Geddes Thanksgiving Dinner. Still, the food will be with me for hours to come as I attempt to digest it. I can still pack away quite a bit of food when it comes down to it.

Anywho, to those who actually read this HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!! ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7076885/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/7076885/ Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:20:32 PST
Anyways, if anyone has a basement they would like to lend to us practicing in twice a week or has any ideas for a place to look into practicing at in the Ann Arbor, MI area, please let me know. Laters. ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/6982228/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/6982228/ Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:12:39 PST






i have nothing to say. just go look at the zombies at that i am a member of. ]]> ~cannibalgnome http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/6679155/ http://cannibalgnome.deviantart.com/journal/6679155/ Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:17:20 PDT
granted, i'm not saying that *nanya, *pu-sama, and *nimra should have daily deviations every other day (they are all wonderful artists, but by now if anyone doesn't know who they are he should be hit with rocks). but what i am saying is that i've had enough of seeing the breasts on the right side of my screen. seriously. they are beautiful things, but that doesn't mean that i want them popping up on my screen every time i come to this damn website. and yes, i have drawn some pictures with nudity in them. its art, and quite frankly the female body is very very pretty. it is far from being in even a small portion of my gallery though.

as of posting this there are 15,548,527 deviations on here to chose from. BRANCH OUT YOU BREAST LOVING WANKERS!!!! ]]> ~cannibalgnome