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So yeah if you know me at all, you know I'm a Ghostbusters fan, and if you watch me, you know I've been an obsessive ass about my Ghostbusters 3 posters. Well apparently someone on GhostbustersNews.com found my work and like it enough to make a mini-article letting people know about it. I'm really happy simply because a site like that thought it was good enough to mention.

Funny thing is, I was scrolling through old articles and saw one about "submit your fanart" and figured I would submit my poster. I literally just finished sending the email and then scrolled to the next page of old news and saw my poster on there.

I was like WTF really!!!! So I screencapped it and posted it, because I'm proud of this little mention.

And I felt the need to express my happiness over it.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/25023335/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/25023335/ Fri, 29 May 2009 21:20:18 PDT
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Title: Santa Claus VS The Zombies

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So I finally get to be part of the arbitrary DA deletion club.

I will admit, the work that was submitted wasn't my own. But I never claimed that it was, furthermore there is the fact that I had permission from the creator (I met him face to face, and he gave me the copy that the image was scanned from) to post the work and show it off. I wanted it to be seen since he was trying to get the project off the ground.

But I think some self-righteous DA user decided they are somehow bettering the site by reporting it and claiming that I am an art thief.

"Your deviantART submissions must consist entirely of your own work or valid stock resources and must not include works from copyrighted sources."

If this were really true, it's only a matter of time until they ban me for all my fanart. But I guess somehow, that's different.

Also never mind the fact that if I were to put my fanart into a different category, I could sell it as a print and make money off of it (since the settings don't can't screen your work and decide if it's copyright work or not).

So whatever DA admins and self-righteous crusaders patrolling DA for "art thieves." I am sorry that you can't be like the majority of us and actually enjoy art and actually spend more time trying to be creative and enjoying the works of others. Hey, have you guys done anything about the people who are posting screencaps of game characters actually claiming it as their creation? Oh right, you're more worried about the real violators like me, apparently...

Now I just need to post some really raunchy pic and get that deleted and/or get banned and my DA experience will be complete.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/24915129/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/24915129/ Sat, 23 May 2009 21:45:13 PDT
Okay so...

Not diabetic

High blood pressure yes, but going down with a new improved diet and medication.

Exercising more as planned.

I've decided to make this the summer I haven't had in almost 10 years. Since the 8th grade I have had summer school (for getting ahead, not to make up), or working, or both up until this summer. So I have literally never taken a break from school longer than 2 weeks ever since then.

Also being that my health is now an even higher priority than before, I am dedicating this summer to just working out. And when I'm not doing that, I'm going to be playing video games (GHOSTBUSTERS), reading a pile of books I have been wanting to read, or just plain resting.

But since I still need to stay in school, I am killing two birds with one stone by taking fitness classes during the summer. General Fitness, Yoga, and Weight Lifting. So I will pretty much be in school and working out from 7am-5pm. I'll have some breaks in between classes, but for the most part my day is going to be really full for 6 weeks.

In the 3 weeks prior to summer school, I will be just working out, preparing my body for the 6 weeks to come.

I am excited for the whole thing, this is a long needed, and much deserved change of pace for me.

That's pretty much it, finally thought it was time to get that other entry off my page.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/24155080/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/24155080/ Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:11:25 PDT
I also got some blood work done and it's looking like I might be diabetic as well.

So the stakes just got higher, and I really am getting into a fight for my life.

However, this has given me new zeal to continue my workouts and even more motivation to drop more weight.

It is not a matter of if I'll get off the blood pressure pills, but when. I will get off these pills, and I will drop all the weight.

I've never backed down from any challenge in my life, and now that this challenge is literally about my life and how I'll live from now on...I will not be stopped.

Bring it on...

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23645597/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23645597/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:25:43 PDT
I'm really worried about making enough money, at least for the next few months, I'm now officially a substitute teacher, and that's good, but I most likely won't get any work in the summer, and that's bad.

I need to find a way to pay for school (junior college for now until i get grad school), or else my loan deferment will not be in place, I cannot afford to pay those payments...at all...right now.

I am in the every annoying limbo of bureaucracy, since I moved from AZ back to CA, despite the fact that I never really officially gave up CA residency, I spent so much time in AZ i became a resident anyways. So I can't get in-state tuition, even at the junior college, which means that it would be cheaper to go full time at the college in AZ that i was going to, than to do half time here, for at least a year(about 9 months to go).

So I'm a man without a country...or state...as the case may be. In order to have an affordable option for school, I may just have to sneak one more semester out of my AZ school. I mean, technically I am not a CA resident because I'm from AZ...so yeah. If the system wants to do this to me, I might as well apply what I've learned from reading Sun Tsu, and make true use of my enemies flaws and openings. Then, I'm going to have to apply like a madman to get scholarships to cover part of the cost. Funny to think I'm stressing about paying for college, even though I am already a graduate.

I have some brewing dental issues, and I have a feeling none of it will be cheap, and I may very well lose some teeth (have them pulled) largely because I cannot afford to do the expensive treatments and surgeries that may be required. Thanks to not brushing and flossing enough, and years of grinding my teeth(I've only now realized it after god knows how long, but looking back...at least 2 years), I have who knows how much damage. And no dental insurance...

BUT THIS WILL NOT STOP ME!

Despite my frustrations and these problems, I am making every effort to move forward and keep my plans in motion.

I will apply for scholarships.
I will get part time work(I actually got a call today about temp work for the school district, I plan on making that place my honey pot for the next few years).
I will work on my teeth, one problem at a time (thankfully I have a credit card I paid off before I moved, it will give me some working space to get chunks of work done over time, essentially, so long as i get some part time work, I can charge it, pay 2/3 of what I charged, and repeat the process until the work is done. And I managed to find Dental Coverage, basically a flat rate membership for a whole slew of dental work)

I cannot let these things slow me down, I got too many big plans and as far as I'm concerned, I'm behind schedule as it is. It takes a lot of work to build an empire ya know...

TO DO:
PHASE I:
MOVE TO CALIFORNIA
TAKE CBEST TEST
BECOME SUBSTITUTE TEACHER

PHASE COMPLETE

PHASE II:
BUY CAR
PAY OFF CREDIT CARDS
GET PART TIME JOB
SAVE MONEY TO BUILD CUSHION

IN PROGRESS

PHASE III:
GET AA(S) IN PSYCHOLOGY AND BUSINESS
INVEST INTO STOCKS/BONDS/IRA
START PAYING OFF SCHOOL LOANS
TAKE GRE
GET INTO GRADUATE SCHOOL

PENDING

PHASE IV:
FINISH GRADUATE SCHOOL AND EARN A MASTER'S
CONTINUE PAYING SCHOOL LOANS
CONTINUE INVESTING
START A CAREER

PENDING

I've got more plans, but like my buddy reminded me, one day at a time...

It's a lot of work to build an empire...

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23367439/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23367439/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:40:27 PST
Things are really looking up now. Working as a sub I can finally start making the money I need to really get ahead and get things done. Soon I'll be able to buy a car! No more having to rely on other people for rides!

As long as I stick to the plan, I can really start making some headway.

And now that I've passed that test, I need to study for the GRE, which I need for graduate school.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23279831/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23279831/ Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:04:23 PST
Things are going well. I'm finally going to be able to start working as a substitute teacher soon. Which means I'll finally be making enough money to really get ahead, and save up for a car.

My birthday went better than expected, thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes.

If I play my cards right I can really start doing some good and helping out.

I have my own room and I've been arranging it the way I like it. My brother will be moving in with my soon so it'll be our room. But he works nights and I work days so i don't think it'll really matter.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23137279/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23137279/ Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:29:34 PST
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring in your moon, I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorow. If you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

I want to know if you can sit with pain; mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with JOY; mine or your own. If you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being a human,

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.

I want to know if you can be faithful, and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty everyday. And, if you can source your life from ITS presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "YES".

IT doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

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I didn't write that, I had it in a class I took some time back, thought I'd post it.

I'm all over the place right now. It tends to get this way when my birthday comes around (tomorrow is my birthday). The last few years have been pretty bad years for birthdays. I mean in the grand schemes it's just a day, but something about it being a birthday just makes sucky things suck more. I could word that more eloquently, but I don't feel like it...

I'm all over the place (I already said that), I'm angry, sad, worried, hopeful...god everything...

I'm starting to meditate, at least trying, in an attempt to reflect on myself and better myself.

I look back at my past and I want to beat myself up for doing it. I mean even after so long there are things that still bother me. I guess part of my inner reflection is looking at choices and actions that have affected me. That includes people I've hurt and people that have hurt me.

I want...sigh...i dunno what I really want...

I want the people that deserve it to finally hurt, but then how can I really want and believe that when I'm here saying I'm taking up meditation and trying to better myself??

I always come to this, I always come to this wall, where I have to re-evaluate myself, will i walk the easy path of hate and anger, or will I walk the hard path of self-control and self-improvement...

aewijogapogjapogja'rgrgj'larjk'gljgop'rjkgpoajgporjg'okjg'lsdjgk;'lakjgporjg'i';lja

dammit...

I should go to gym, if I work out hard enough I'll be too tired to care about all this.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23090246/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23090246/ Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:12:57 PST
I can't do anything about it.

I hate my aunt so much for it, and that hate is reinforced everytime she makes my grandmother cry, which is more often than should ever be.

I wish I could take away the pain. Make things better.

Here I am, coming home, telling myself I'm going to make things better...

Nothing's really changed. Hell if anything I sometimes feel like I'm more of a burden than of any real help.

I'm trying to work to make things better, but so far it doesn't seem like I'm getting far.

I'm spending more time struggling to get my own feet on the ground, and there's my grandmother...

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23030454/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/23030454/ Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:25:32 PST
I have been having a recurring dream that takes place within the universe of "Avatar: The Last Airbender"

Here's the dream:

I am with a small band of earth and water benders (no one from the show sorry), and were are in an occupied earth nation city. We secretly meet in some caves outside of the city where we practice earth bending and water bending, we are teaching each other to bend our respective elements.

We are collecting weapons, swords, clubs, etc. and throwing them in a pile in a pit inside the cave. And every time we meet, we are training to bend.

We are preparing for some kind of resistance movement, and I don't know when/what is going on...but the situation is desperate. We are very serious about our training. I remember seeing us taking our stances and repeating movements over and over. Rough uppercut movements that thrust the earth upwards, and swift slicing motions that move the water.

At some point though something we find are two small precious stones/gems. They are red, rough and uncut, small..like marbles. But they glow, and something about their properties is that they help earth benders. Ideally we would want bigger pieces, or many more smaller pieces, but since these were the best we could do, they were extremely valuable to us. They also took extra practice to master, so one of the other earth benders was practicing with them. He would make them spin and move around.

I remember there was this huge sense of urgency, it was almost desperate. Whatever we were preparing for, it was our last best chance.





I had this dream two nights in a row, and I have never ever had a recurring dream in my life. So I consider this to be very significant.


So...if anyone has any ideas as far as dream interpretation goes, I'm open to hearing them...

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22962260/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22962260/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:23:55 PST
Nothing fancy, immediate family only, put her straight into the ground. That's all she wanted.

It's going to be weird not seeing her around anymore. Same as it's been with my gramps and my best friend.

But life goes on, we must endure.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22939062/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22939062/ Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:15:22 PST
I knew this day was coming.

I had no unfinished business with her, and I had come to terms with the reality of her mortality.

Having been through this with my best friend and my grandpa, I know what's supposed to happen next, but I still don't know what is really going to happen.

I feel so bad for my grandmother, she's going to bury her first born.

This is the second time in my life I've heard my Dad cry. And will probably be the first time I ever actually see him cry.

She was a good person. Her life was literally about helping people. That was her job, her passion. She fought to make the world a better place.

Now she's gone.

Only the good die young.

At least she is no longer suffering, with all those machines hooked up to her...

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22902744/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22902744/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:34:10 PST
I borrowed the money I need and the bills are paid. I should have enough time now to make back what I owe and then some so that I can pay my bills in the months to come. I've still got some other things I can sell, but I'm going to wait on those so that I don't have to part with them right away.

I'm talking with my teacher about seeing if any of the other schools in the district are needing tutors. I want to work a few more hours to get some more green before I start substitute teaching.

I just gotta keep working at it all.

Things will get better, I just can't give up.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22868126/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22868126/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:15:28 PST
Yeah, so I got that job, but the timing of my paycheck and my credit card bill is off, so I am somewhat effed.

Luckily my mom is able to loan me the money for now, and after a couple of weeks of working I will be able to pay it back.

Fucking credit card company could give a shit about helping me, nevermind that I make my payments...fuck em.

Of course I'm not sure how much money I will have after that.

*sigh*

Substitute teaching is still a month or so away. I'm gonna have to see if I can pick up some more hours elsewhere tutoring or something.

Once I start working things will be better. Once I start subbing I'll have more money.

But it really sucks having to borrow money.

I mean, I came home to help, and here I am with my hand out...

I'll make it up to everyone.

I just gotta keep working at it.

"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean, and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life...but it ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward, how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!"
-Rocky Balboa

I keep telling myself this when times get tough. I keep telling myself: these are my humble beginnings. I will look back on these days, from the backyard of my big house, with my kids playing, knowing they will be taken care of, knowing that I made it. I will look back on these days, and think of how i didn't give up, how i kept moving forward, even after all the hits. I will look back and know that where others quit, or were afraid to even try...I did it. I will look back...and I will smile.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22670789/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22670789/ Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:33:29 PST
To recap:

-My aunt is in the hospital, she may or may not make it. She is more alert now, but having been given an explanation of what her life might be like if she recovers, she is leaning towards being let go.

-Having moved home to continue school, find better work, and help my family...it seems that I am not as much help as I thought. My grandmother has revealed to me that she is in fact not handling the death of her husband very well, and yesterday I witnessed a low grade break down.

-As a result of her stress, she has decided that it would be best that my best friend who is living here with us, move out. She's given him 3 months, but that still leaves my best friend to have to figure out where he is going to go. As of right now his only option is moving back in with his parents.

-My aunt (whom I have personally disowned) is still not talking to the family. She is the reason my grandparents lost their house, and she put my grandfather in an early grave. She also happens to fit all the makings of a sociopath.

-And here I am, having been home just long enough to start believing I was making a difference...guess I'm not really making that much of a difference after all...

-Amidst all this I am trying to get my own life back in order, and still trying to clear out my grandfather's stuff.

I feel more like an impedance now. I want to have my turn to just deal, to have all my ups and downs...

But I can't do that, when my grandmother is still in pieces.

*sigh*

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22474404/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22474404/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:00:33 PST
Her improvements may not be enough. Her kidneys are in bad shape. And her liver isn't showing signs of restarting. The fact that she already has a recurring cancer, combined with a bad heart, makes her unlikely to be placed on the transplant list.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22326340/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22326340/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:58:09 PST
Keep working out and get in better shape.

Keep going to school to get a better education (got my Bachelor's, now it's time to get a Master's...then my PhD.)

Keep studying to pass the California substitute teacher certification.

Keep the promise I made to my grandfather before he died.


In the words of Amazing Spider-Man:

Same responsibilities, brand new day...




And now for some Tom Petty:

Well I wont back down, no I wont back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I wont back down

Gonna stand my ground, wont be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground and I wont back down

Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I wont back down.

Well I know whats right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I'll stand my ground and I wont back down

Hey baby there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I wont back down
No, I wont back down

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22268941/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22268941/ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:53:04 PST
I am an introspective person, I like to just sit and think, and wonder...

I like to reflect on the world and myself and what I've learned, need to learn, and plan to learn...

I feel like right now...I can look at my life, look at all that has past, the good, the bad...everything that has happened in this last year...and see the new year coming up...

I think this is gonna be a good one...

In the end, we have no control over outside forces, we can make plans for our lives, but that's all they are, just plans. Nothing is guaranteed.

So ultimately life isn't what we want it to be, but rather what happens and how we deal with it all.

I made a choice to come back home to help my family, and that's what I'm doing, and will continue to do. I'm going to do my best to make things better, for my family, and for myself.

I'm going to continue my schooling.

I'm going to pass that CBEST (California Basic Education Skills Test) so I can be a substitute teacher.

I'm going to keep working out and getting in better shape.

I'm going to make up for lost time with my friends and family.

I will fulfill the promise I made to my grandfather.

This is not how I planned my life, but that's okay. I'm still doing everything I wanted, I'm just doing it differently.

"Use 'can't' as 'can do' and 'no way' as 'way'" -Bruce Lee

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22153218/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22153218/ Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:30:54 PST
God I miss him so much. I've been clearing out his stuff, throwing junk out and organizing everything else. I keep finding things I just want to ask him questions about.

I just wanna sit and talk with my grandpa...and I can't.

And I know that this is another year that my best friend's family have to celebrate the holidays without him around...

To anyone out there who is celebrating the holidays with one less loved one around... I am so sorry.


I see my cousins who are all so young, and they'll never get to know my grandfather the I did.

I see my grandmother crying because she misses him, and I just wish I could find away to take her pain, so it won't hurt so much for her.

We all just need to take the time to remember those we have lost, and to remember those that have lost someone close to them.

Life goes on, and we have to live it.

That's what I'm trying to do...

I just miss my friend...and my grandpa...

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22016477/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/22016477/ Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:06:18 PST
I got a job lined up for me!

It's nothing fancy, tutoring for the old program I was in back in high school. But my old teacher was ready and willing to hire me with open arms!

I just have to get fingerprinted and drug tested since it's a school district job...no problems there.

It won't be full time but it's lookin like it will be around 20-30hrs a week depending.

Oh man that's nice.

Now I just have to start studying for the CBEST so I can become a substitute teacher and make more money!

I'd like to think that this is all in a way karmic...

I was good to people, they remember me, they like me...and now when I am in need I have something I can contribute and they are willing to take me.

ah yes...I am happy.

now for some celebration music:

[link]

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21993270/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21993270/ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:49:22 PST
I've been helping my grandma out around the house, getting yard work done. I was going to take the dogs out for a walk again, but it's pouring rain so I'm going to have to put that off.

My grandpa had a lot of stuff...a lot...and slowly I'm getting it organized. Have to figure out what we can sell and what we'll need and what is just plain junk.

I've been really busy with it all, so I haven't really been on. Haven't even been seeing much TV, which I guess is a good thing.

I have a good shot at some part time work being a tutor back at my old high school though!

I did already sell a lot of stuff online, so I made my grandma and me some money!

I'm hoping this is all a sign of good things to come...

anyways...i gotta get back into my work outs (que rocky music)...

PS

This song is a bad ass hip-hop cover, listen to it!

[link]

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21843823/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21843823/ Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:47:39 PST
Trip went well.

Except that in packing the trailer some dick stole my really expensive shotgun.

I'm very angry about that.

I'm trying to think of how things could've been worse, but wrong is wrong, and THAT makes me really angry. I'm a man of principle (and that annoys some people), but goddammit that was MY hard earned money that bought that gun.

*sigh*

But I'm home now, and I have A LOT of things to do.

To Do:

Get a job

Get a car

Organize/sell my gramps stuff for my grandma
Organize and catalog what we keep

Study for CBEST so I can get my substitute teacher certificate

Fix the workout machine so I can get back into my exercise

Fix the yard since the dogs have been digging up holes

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21763001/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21763001/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:07:43 PST
Also my laptop now seems to be effed thanks to FUCKING ADWARE! ARRARRRGGGGHHH FUCK!

So yeah...

Anyways, I will return, and I will get on here as often as I can between now and moving, but just so people know(like it really matters right?).

so long folks, be back ASAP

*edit*

Oh good...thanks to the adware the essay that I was working on, which is due this coming saturday...is now completely corrupt.

I get to start all over on it!

FUCK!!!

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21756186/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21756186/ Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:04:23 PST
Apparently I did that...and now my fucking internet explorer(which I don't use) is popping up random ads...

FUCK!

My adware removal program aren't working.

Anyone else have something that works besides:

spybot search and destroy

adaware SE

spyware blaster


HELP ME PLEASE!!!

these programs used to be all that I needed, but now this new generation of adware is so....powerful....

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21719027/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21719027/ Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:57:23 PST
My room is more or less empty but for some random things lying on the floor, one of those things being a plastic Captain America shield(don't judge me, I like comic books, screw you).

I also have my other computer tower made out of junk that I use for music.

For some reason one of the fans are slightly off, and makes this really loud an annoying hum that won't stop unless you hit the side of it hard enough(generally a good kick will do it).

So while enjoying a day off from work and actually sleeping in, I hear it...the infamous hum.

Awoken from my peaceful, slumber, a blood shot eye looks to the computer.

Too tired to actually get up I look for something I can throw...and there it is...Captain America's shield!

Cap did it that way all the time! Get outta line? BAM! Shield to the face!

So like my beloved Marvel hero I grab the shield lying on the floor amongst clothes and magazines... and aim it towards the side of the tower, and give a throw worthy of Captain America...

BAM...silence

Damn I'm good.

For the laziness of today, that was my crowning moment.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21646256/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21646256/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:42:03 PST
so basically this will work on a first-come, first-serve basis. Pick one, or more(order them by preference, and I will go down the list by responses.

so here's the lsit of ideas i have in my head:


The Jacks VS The Ghostbusters

Ryoko Von D (Ryoko essentially tatted up like Kat Von D from LA Ink)

Ryoko through histroy (you pick the era)

Ryoko as Jem from Jem and the Holograms

Drawing out scene based on a line from the song "This is Halloween" (i.e "i am the clown with the tear-away face")

Annnd that's about it, I am open to other ideas though...


so yeah, if you've made it this far in reading this, take your pic, and i will go down the list as people respond.

Now i just have to hope people care enough to respond...

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21632900/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21632900/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:39:57 PST
And my fanfic has been neglected totally, which I feel bad about, but like I said, just in a rut I guess.

Not to mention I've been busy at work and other side projects, like meeting with professors to discuss developing the major I graduated with; and I'm developing a class curriculum for the program I was in back in High School(which I've never done before). And oh yeah, I'm taking online classes.


Anyways excuses, excuses...

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21626679/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21626679/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:49:04 PST

ugghhh...

lots of beer...

lots of food...


need more rest...and gatorade...


oi...

go bye bye

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21308496/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21308496/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:54:18 PST
I've designed different shirts, posters, stickers, buttons...

Anyways I'm trying to find different ways to get some income coming in.

Spread the word please?

Give it a look see, maybe you'll like some of the stuff on there...

here's my gallery:

[link]

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21246632/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21246632/ Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:21:30 PDT Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under your stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll...

Scream! This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green

Aren't you scared?

Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night

Everybody scream, everybody scream

In our town of Halloween!

I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair

I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!

Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare

That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Halloween

In this town

Don't we love it now?
Everyone's waiting for the next surprise

Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everybody scream
Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy

Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

La la la la-la
La la la la-la
La la la la-la la la-la la
Whoo!

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21230125/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21230125/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:14:38 PDT
Energy AZ FM 101.1 in AZ is going down. The only all techno/rave/clubbin music radio station I have ever known...and it's coming to an end

I listen to it at work all the time...sigh

oh well...

[link]

I blame the economy for this...

PS

Got some cool new ideas for some pics I need to start working on.

Oh and I still need to make a pic for you should check out the club, some good talents are being displayed there. I know I'm always lookin for new people to add to my watch list.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21118552/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21118552/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:15:14 PDT
To do:

1. Titans fanfic, I know I have people out there that want more, so I'm gonna give it to 'em.

2. Joker pic inspired by [link]

3. Pic inspired by photo [link]

4. Finish Proton Pack Design and schematics diagram

5. Draw new Ghostbusters Logo

6. Make a new spidey pic for the

7. Oh and I should make a cool halloween pic for I'm thinking...pumpkins...jack skelligton somewhere...gimme time.


Wow...that's a big to do list for this weekend...it's gonna be fun

"I am the clown with the tear-away face,
here in a flash and gone without a trace
I am the who when you call "Who's there?",
I am the wind blowing through your hair
I am the shadow on the moon at night,
filling your dreams to the brim with fright"

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21002733/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/21002733/ Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:21:11 PDT
I suspected that one of the reasons that I wasn't invited to the alumni eventst that we had at my university homecoming was becuase I wasn't considered good enough. Since right now I work on campus doing manual labor and do not have a job that utilizes my degree.

Today I learned some information that confirms that suspicion. We have a flight program at my school, and a lot of times we have grads become flight instructors to build up hours so they can get good pilot jobs.

I found out that only the high ranking instructors were invited to any alumni events, while the lower instructors (also alumni like myself) were not invited to any alumni events.

So, while having paid the frieght on earning my degree (figuritively and literally), I'm still not good enough.

Everyday I fight against elitism, peopel looking down on me, having to overcome sterotypes.

I am the first in my family to graduate from college. I came from a high school were the counselors only try to graduate us, most of us don't stand a chance of going to school after high school. According to state tests I was only smart enough to maybe go to community college. I gradauated from one of the best schools in the country, and did it with honors.

But because I'm not working that dream job, that job that will make me make the shcool look good...

I'm not good enough to be a part of what I've rightfully earned.

All I want is to be respected, to be recognized. It's not about the parties, it's the principle.

"Right is right and wrong is wrong no matter who says it or does it." -Malcolm X

"...maybe you're looking out for your interests just a little bit more. I mean you shouldn't be asking people to come down here and pay the freight on something they paid, it still ain't good enough, I mean you think that's right? I mean maybe you're doing your job but why you gotta stop me from doing mine? Cause if you're willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you want to get, who's got the right to stop you? I mean maybe some of you guys got something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to someone, something... and you're told no, even after you paid your dues? Who's got the right to tell you that, who? Nobody! It's your right to listen to your gut, it ain't nobody's right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do!... You know, the older I get the more things I gotta leave behind, that's life. The only thing I'm asking you guys to leave on the table... is what's right. " -Rocky Balboa

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/20897923/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/20897923/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:28:46 PDT
I plan on being the Hulk.

No costume, no padded suit.

All muscle, all me.

I've been getting myself in shape and transforming my body for the last year now. Thus far I've lost 80lbs and 10inches off my waist. My arms are 21inches around.

I need to lose more weight and gain more muscle.

As of right now I've hit a wall, and my weight loss is stagnant.

I have to train harder. More cardio, keep lifting. Stricter diet.

I'm not gonna give up.

Last year I met Lou Ferrigno (world class body builder and man who played the Incredible Hulk in the 70s). I met him, told him what I was doing, and actually had him say I was off to a good start.

I want to show him what I can do in a year of training.

It's frustrating, but I'm not gonna give up.

Standing in front of all those people at the Masquerade will be the culmination of all my hard work. The ultimate "i did it" to the world.

Tougher than the best, stronger than the rest.

"A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard. " -Bruce Lee

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/20882240/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/20882240/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:51:59 PDT

Is what I'm reading about her true? I haven't seen any art from here and just now checked her profile and saw a bunch of hateful messages. Apparently according to these people she was actually just tracing artwork and then exploiting other people to get views on DA. Is this true??? Does anyone that watch me watch her? Is there any way to verify this or is she part of some kind of flame attack?? If anyone knows, please explain...

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/20816677/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/20816677/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:51:35 PDT
Currently I'm working on campus with custodial/logistics. I do all the set ups for the events on campus.

I do this because when I was starting to look for work my best friend died and attending to that put things on hold. On top of that I am taking more classes at the local community college that compliment my degree. I am also taking the time to get in shape as it not only pertains to my own well being but my possible career choices as well.

So here I am working on campus, and this week is Octoberwest (yes west, not fest). Here at the school in AZ it is basically our homecoming. So that means that they invite alumni to special events and treat them like guests, VIPs...

I wasn't invited to anything.

No email, no phone call, no letter. Not even a mention of invitation by the people that see me on campus, the people that know I'm a graduate.

I'm just their fucking lap dog. Just deliver the tables and chairs.

There I am standing on the side lines, watching these people, many of them privileged (I had scholarships, loans, and worked 30 hours a week to pay for school).

Over and over, treated like a second class citizen.

I think about how they treat me and the people I work with, and to think that my father or grandfather would be treated like this if they worked here...



I'm taking notes, I'm not going to forget this.

I will not treat others like this. I will remember my heritage, and my humble beginnings.

"I mean you shouldn't be asking people to come down here and pay the freight on something they paid, it still ain't good enough, I mean you think that's right? I mean maybe you're doing your job but why you gotta stop me from doing mine? Cause if you're willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you want to get, who's got the right to stop you? I mean maybe some of you guys got something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to someone, something... and you're told no, even after you paid your dues? Who's got the right to tell you that, who? Nobody! It's your right to listen to your gut, it ain't nobody's right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do!... You know, the older I get the more things I gotta leave behind, that's life. The only thing I'm asking you guys to leave on the table... is what's right. " -Rocky 6

"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!" -Rocky 6

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/19798601/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/19798601/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:19:22 PDT -Rocky 6

Time to goal:
11 months
18 days

still losing more weight. Worked out chest only today for about 1.5hrs

Tomorrow I go for a run and do some lifting, workout back.

I hate that people still short change me. Guy at work keeps talking like I haven't done much. I've lost more weight than he has and in less time, and he knows it.

He thinks just because he was some soccer star once upon a time and because he's thinner he's somehow in better shape.

I'm stronger without question, and I'm sure at this point I can match his endurance.

What do you really have on me? The fact that you weigh less? Give me time and that's gone. Faster than me? Not for long.

You've got nothing that I can't match with enough time. And seeing what you call "training" it's a joke compared to what I can do. My slack off training is more than what you do.

I mean really, you think because I still look like the fat guy that I'm not in shape. Guess you haven't noticed that my arms are almost as big as your legs.

It's the story of my life, people look at me and think I'm a quitter, a loser.

I prove them wrong everyday, one more is just business as usual. It just pisses me off that I have to keep dealing with it.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/19760709/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/19760709/ Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:51:36 PDT -Rocky 4

Time left:

11 months
20 days


Got back into my training after a two week hiatus (comic con 08 was one massive party, it was just missing the kegs).

Full body workout today, getting my body primed for working out again.

Now it's back into my diet: high protein, low-carb, little to no sugars.

I have to work hard, train as hard as I can everyday. I have to push myself.

It was good to get back into the gym today, felt good to lift weights again.

To motivate myself I have some reminders.

I met Lou Ferrigno at the comic-con, and I told him about my lifting, he actually told me I'm off to a good start. A world class body builder told me that, now I have to accomplish my goals.

I plan on meeting him again next year and showing him my picture with him from this year. Show him how I've changed.

My lifting gloves also have reminders on them.

Left hand: use can't as can do

Right hand: no way as way

Bruce Lee.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/19435498/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/19435498/ Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:48:45 PDT
Anyways...my friend told me about the masquerade and I read about it and I came to a decision.

I want to be in the masquerade next year.

I'm going to be the hulk.

I've already decided to spend the next year training my ass off and bulking up like a mad man, but now I want to do it even more, so that I can be the hulk.

It will be the culmination of all my hard work to stand in front of thousands and show them what I will have become.

This will be hands down one of the greatest challenges of my life.

Some will say it can't be done, I say...you've never met me.

Timeframe:

By the end of February I will have had to have lost most if not all the fat left on my body.

That gives me almost 5 months to power lift and bulk up to hulk status.

Goals:

-24 inche arms (3 inches to go)
-Massive Lats and Legs
-40-42 inche waist(about 5 inches to go)
-250+ weight(of muscle)

Challenges:

-Diet(will have to be even stricter than it is in order to lose the fat and gain the muscle)
-Running
-Gaining all that mass and doing it naturally(i.e. no steroids)
-On top of that, I have to do it in 12 months


To keep myself on track I'm going to be documenting my progress via journal, photos, and videos.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/18623637/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/18623637/ Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:48:09 PDT
I'm getting sore again, something that hasn't happened after a workout in a few months.

I'm still working on refining it as I go on, while I've created a good guideline, I'll probably need to modify it as I go along to perfect it, and I'm still working on the nutrition part. I'm eating even better than I was before, but I need to work on more of a schedule and portions, again something that I will be developing over time.

But I feel good.

This week will be officially the first full week of implementing the program (although if I get this new job im goin for I might be flying out to kansas before the week is out).

One year to make it happen...

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/18538500/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/18538500/ Wed, 28 May 2008 05:30:50 PDT
So far I've been successful, but now phase 1 is over.

I've platued, so now I have to not only break the barrier, I have to shatter it with a vengeance.

One year to drop the rest of the weight.

One year to bulk up to hulk status.

I'm taking this week to read all the books I bought on weight training while on vacation, and I'm going to reinvent my wieght training.

Moving on to phase 2

I'm going to develop a 12 month program, exercises, nutrition, everything.

What I'm doing now has been reduced to maintenance, it's time to take it up a notch.

Get stronger, Get faster.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/17939355/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/17939355/ Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:11:36 PDT [link]

website that gives you good drawing practice for different poses, changes every 30 seconds, you have to trt and draw the pose in that time

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/17849355/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/17849355/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:52:27 PDT [link]


Yeah evidently corporate greed wants to start making a profit off of our freedom of expression, I know freedom isn't free, but it's just wrong to start putting a literal price tag on it.

The Orphan Works bill will basically say that any and all art online must be registered witha c opyright company. That means your art must be paid for...all of it, in order to actually make it your own.


the link below is to sign a petition against it.

[link]

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/17826798/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/17826798/ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:00:21 PDT
I do have a lot of spare parts and I just got my hands on a fully functioning tower, So within the week I should be up and running again.

So for those who have been reading my fanfic, thats why it has suddenly stopped. I just have to hope that the hard drives weren't destroyed in this latest crash so I can recover what I wrote but didn't post up yet.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/17447955/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/17447955/ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:01:26 PDT
Please tell art communities about this contest and link to this journal entry!
Spread the word to anime/video game fans across the internet and around the globe. All are welcome to enter!

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Street Fighter is one of the most influential video game franchises of all time. It launched the head-to-head fighting game genre and brought together millions of players around the globe to do battle, first at arcades and then, later on, across a variety of home consoles. 2008 is the 20th anniversary of the franchise.

The Street Fighter fans who were young players when the franchise first launched are now grown up, but their love of the game continues. This high quality art book, produced by UDON Entertainment, is a cross section of brand new artistic interpretations of the Street Fighter characters in a series of full size illustrations. The book will launch at this year's San Diego Comicon as part of Capcom's Street Fighter Celebration content.

UDON artists and other comic, video game and freelance illustrators are invited to interpret their favorite Street Fighter characters for inclusion in this special book. Along with these invited artists is a widespread open art submission call to the video game fan communities to submit artwork for possible inclusion in the tribute volume.

You could be part of Capcom history as part of the Street Fighter Tribute art book and have your artwork showcased alongside top names in the industry!

We want to see your unique vision of Street Fighter!


THE CONTEST:
We expect a large amount of entries from the global fan art community so please ensure that you follow the rules as outlined below. ART SUBMITTED THAT DOES NOT FOLLOW THESE RULES WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.


INITIAL SUBMISSION:
Initial submissions must be via a low resolution JPEG (please make the sample jpeg no larger than 900kb) e-mailed to sftribute@udoncomics.com. In that e-mail, include your full name (real name, not internet nickname or other ID) and proper mailing address.

Multiple submissions are allowed. If you send multiple submissions for the contest, please e-mail each entry separately and ensure that your full contact information is included with each submission.

Collaborations are allowed as long as both artists are aware of the submission (ie. you can't colour up someone else's line art without their permission and submit it) and are fully credited in the submission e-mail.

If your work is chosen and you'd like us to credit the artwork to a nickname/internet handle, please let us know.

Due to the number of entries we anticipate receiving, ONLY winning artists will receive e-mail confirmation and correspondence. Please don’t follow up with e-mails asking us if your artwork has won. We’ll contact you if your artwork has been chosen.

Do NOT send full size (print resolution) illustrations unless we specifically ask you for them. If your artwork is accepted for inclusion in the book, we will send you an e-mail and set up a way to receive the high resolution final image from you.


DEADLINE:
JPEG samples of illustrations must be e-mailed to sftribute@udoncomics.com no later than Monday March 31st in order to be considered for inclusion in the book.


ILLUSTRATION FORMAT:
The artwork submission must be an original illustration fully done by the artist.

Final hand-in format size must be
8.5" x 11" (or larger equivalent height-width ratio)
400+ dpi TIF file (CMYK or RGB)


ILLUSTRATION CONTENT:
Any characters from the following games –
Street Fighter
Street Fighter II (and sequels)
Street Fighter III (and sequels)
Street Fighter Alpha (and sequels)

All illustrations should be of Street Fighter characters ONLY.
You can illustrate a single character or a group. It's up to you.

DO NOT include characters from other video games (including other Capcom games) or any non-Street Fighter characters from crossover video games (IE. NO X-MEN, MARVEL VS CAPCOM, NO SNK). Including non-Street Fighter characters will automatically disqualify the submission. Please also note that original characters from the Street Fighter EX series are also NOT allowed.

All content must be teen-friendly (PG-13 equivalent) - No extreme violence/gore (a little bit of blood is okay) or nudity.

Stylistically, we want artists to show us what they can do. We don’t need you to draw or paint just like the Capcom artists in order to win (though if that is the style you choose, that’s okay too). Realistic, anime/manga, super-deformed/cute, comic book style, abstract, animated, graffiti, pixilated, you name it... we’re open and excited about receiving all kinds of different original artistic... ]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/17171834/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/17171834/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:37:41 PST
Five weeks to fine tune myself for a fight.

"To beat this guy, you need speed...you don't have it. So what we'll be callin' on is good old fashioned blunt-force trauma...LETS START BUILDING SOME HURTIN BOMBS!" -ROCKY 6

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/15862044/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/15862044/ Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:50:10 PST
This wasn't the first time that I've attempted getting in better shape, but this is the first time that I'm finally doing it for the right reasons: I'm doing it for me and me alone.

So finally deciding that I spent my summer in Monterey CA for an Arabic language program. I decided to take the time not studying Arabic to study nutrition, exercise techniques, fat loss programs, the works. And I focused my entire summer training in they gym only on the bike machine, riding 10-20 miles a day 4 times a week. I had designed a training program that I knew if I had any chance of sticking it out and going making it last I would need to build up my endurance, so I did just that during my summer.

When I came back I started my routine. I started eating better and exercising 4-5 times a week for 2-3 hours. I made sure that my routine wasn't exactly the same each time(as in the same order of workouts, same sets, etc.) and I made sure to workout major as well as minor muscles.

I've also added different workouts as needed, I do an outside workout involving segments of telephone poles and a sledgehammer and tires. I also have free weight workouts and I hit the bike machine and soon i'm going to take up jogging(shudder). I also recently added walking to work(2.5miles) and usually walk home from the gym too.

Anyways the results have hit hard and clear, I'm stronger, faster, and am now definitely starting to the look the part of someone who lifts.

my waist is 8inches smaller and still shrinking, my arms are 21inche guns and I'm benching 315lbs and still getting stronger.

Ultimate goal: 36inche waist 22inche arms, 400lb bench

At my current rate of success, I should be there by May of next year, and if I take it up a notch(which I plan on doing) I should be there by as early as March.


Puny humans...I've come to smash.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/14863043/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/14863043/ Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:23:46 PDT
He was the first person I considered a friend when I started college. He was a great friend that was loyal to the end. He was genuinely kind hearted and lived a life with no regrets. He was unapologetically himself. Losing him is as if I lost a brother, it's like losing one of my friends from back home.

Gregory James Muff: Beloved friend, son and brother

You will be forever loved and missed.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/14434133/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/14434133/ Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:17:27 PDT -Rocky Balboa, Rocky 6

"GIVE UP? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW EASY THAT WOULD BE FOR ME? DO YOU? GIVING YOU WOULD BE A BLESSING! ...THE IDEA OF GIVING UP SITS IN MY BRAIN LIKE A CANCER, TWENTY-FOUR SEVEN, JUST...JUST GNAWING AWAY AT ME!...EVERYONE I'VE LOVED HAS SUFFERED BECAUSE I WOULDN'T GIVE UP!...WOULDN'T GIVE UP THE GOOD FIGHT! GOD IN HEAVEN...YOU TALK TO ME ABOUT GIVING UP?"
-Spider-Man, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #21


The world just keeps trying to knock me down man. I work my ass off and taxes rape me, I have bills that just keep coming, and now my car needs a new clutch so I can't drive it for the very real possibility of it going out completely.

college loans got declined so now i have to work constantly to support myself. I get a lot fo the jobs that no one else wants to do at work. I work landscaping during the day and then when everyone else is going home i stay two hours longer, THEN I just put my things away and go right to custodial work at the same job and scrub toilets and take out trash...15 hour days. I worked my ass off for overtime, and now, my reward for all that hard work is that my boss tells me from now on i can't work as much overtime as i have because they basically don't want to pay me for it, but they are willing to hire someone else part time to do that other work i do(except that for the amount of work they other person could get they would only be saving about $60, I didn't take business and econ classes in college for nothing, i'm not an idiot).

so yeah folks, work hard and get fucked.

and my car, well that means i have to hoof it about 4-5 miles to work, AND I DID! fortunately now i get rides to and from work but there will still be days that I have to walk.

YOU CAN"T STOP ME! GIVE UP??? I DON"T THINK SO!

I was born to two teenage, mexican parents. and poor on top of that. The odds have literally been against me since the day i was born. I never had the chance to ger ready for a fight, I had to be a fighter and a survivor ever since I was a kid. I had an abusive step father, and for all his efforts he never broke my spirit or my will to fight. According to state tests and statistics I would maybe graduate high school and move on to community college, but likely drop out. Shit I made honors and got into one fo the best schools in the world for what I do, hell I had options on which schools to go to for college. I had a teacher in high school who told me I wasn't that smart and he got hear for the campus intercom system that I was going to one of the best schools in the world, and he knew the school cuz he also knew he wasn't smart enough to get in there himself.

and even when I got into to college I had to work my ass off and do it while having a job, and I beat out pampered rich kids who all they had to worry about was study.

I mean, i wake up with nothing everyday! everyday I have to reprove myself, prove i'm not some fat lazy loser, prove i'm not an idiot, prove i'm a hard worker, prove that i'm willing to work hard and do whatever I have to in order to succeed.

I'M STILL HERE! I'M STILL STANDING! I'M STILL STRONG!

The world has done everything it can to try and beat me down to dust, and I still keep moving forward. God I've even had to struggle for things as simple as a meal at one point. Where others have given up, I move forward. Where others have fallen, I still stand tall. Where others have said it couldn't be done, I said "what do I need to do make this happen?"

you think you know struggle, you think you know what it is to keep fighting? tell me when you know what it's like to have almost everyone you meet think you're nothing, and then having to prove yourself over and over and over, everyday since as far back as you can remember.

I'm never gonna stop, never gonna give up. I WILL NOT BE BROKEN.

"Use 'can't' as 'can do' and 'no way' as 'way'"
-Bruce Lee

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/14135656/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/14135656/ Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:39:22 PDT
anyways I's also like to take the time to do a little random ranting about a song i heard actually some time ago, it's only now since the summer that i've had regular internet access and been able to download music.

the songs: Gym Class Heroes: "Clothes Off" vs. Jermaine Stewart: "We don't have to take our clothes off"

First of all, i heard the gym class version first on a commercial, but i knew instantly it was original, i dont give a damn how good you think those guys are, they don't have th talent to come up with that beat. So i looked it up and sure enough it was Jermaine Stewart's song.

Way to go losers, just like most rappers, you officially arent talented enough to make your own beats.

also, after researching Jermaine's song, it was made as a tribute abstinence because this was when AIDS was so new that anyone that had it was sure to die young. Jermaine had AIDS and made this song to promote abstinence to young people since at the time it wasn't known how else to keep from getting AIDS.

"So come on baby, won't you show some class
Why you want to move so fast.
We don't have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no "

Now i'm not straightedge, i'm not some christian boy with his "virgin card" or anything lame like that, but putting it simply, sex and things related to it are fun, but really, you still have to talk to them eventually. well at least I do, i want a woman with substance, so for me its not about gettin her into bed ASAP. Not only that in this day and age STDs are a very real threat, and honestly this song is just a great song to listen to anytime.

now onto the Gym Class Zeroes

So yeah their version is the exact opposite of the original version. it essentially amounts to "i'm hot, so are you, you like me, lets do it"

"We have to take our clothes off
We have to party all night
And we have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no"

"Such an angel with a devilish angle
And quite the certified sweet talker
And you're buying every line of it girl
And I don't really blame you
If I was in your shoes I'd probably do the same too"

wow, suck my balls. THanks Gym Class Heroes, for bastardizing an old school song that actually had some class.

I leave you with the my favorite parting words:

SUCK IT!

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/11010163/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/11010163/ Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:10:51 PST
but yeah..i have myself to blame, so of course im gonna keep this thing running as best as possible(or at least with as much effort as to be expected to keep something made out of junk running). as of right now in hopes of preventing overheating i have a mini house fan up against the open case...so far so good.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10698271/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10698271/ Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:04:04 PST
She was this really cute palauan girl. I knew her from a summer program way back when, and she kinda had a thing for me and vice versa, but it was the same summer i was dumped and i just didnt feel up to it(and i didnt think she like me that much, i found after the fact). I never forgot her and during our first year of college we talked as much as possible, but then she went abroad and that was that...

she was online again for the first time in about a year and a half(she left a message way back asking if i remembered her, but i want around and the time diff of where she was, i didnt see until hours later since i was sleeping).

talking to her again, she barely remembered me, and the only reason she did remember me was cuz i have a unique email. we only said a few words to each other. we didnt even say bye to each other she just stopped messaging.

things change...

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10619069/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10619069/ Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:10:24 PST
and frankly I was disgusted.

while drunk he and a girl he works with got it on, on a dance floor, during a party, no protection either, and hte girl has a boyfriend...

he's proud of what he did, and laughed as he told me about this...

Also there is another girl he's stringin along that he's lookin to get with, he didnt last night, but he did bring her home...

they were both to drunk to do much more than stumble to his bedroom and fall to the floor...

to my knowledge he still has plans of sleeping with her, but no plans of maintaining any kind of boyfriend/girlfriend relationship...

depsite knowing her rocky family history and listening to her talk for hours, his only goal is to go to bed with her...

I know this because he's told me on more than one occasion...

in all this, his other friends are cheering him on for his actions, and think even more highly of him for them.

so much for honor...
...........................................................................

I try to maintain a level of integrity.
I try to remain loyal to my friends and family.
I believe in honor, and doing the right thing to preserve that honor.
But then all those ideals just get shit on by people.
What incentive do i have to be good, to do good, to do the right thing, when it seems to mean so little to people?

fight the good fight, even when it seems like a lost cause, because lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for...

now more than ever it seems like the things i believe in are a lost cause.

talking to a good friend of mine he told me that its all out of my hands, i can't do anything about it...he's right, but that doesn't change that it bothers me. How can it not bother me when there are people like that all around me, when i see over and over people just casting aside their standards.

I believe that I should set an example, do the right thing so eventually others will follow, change things, one person at a time....

no i dont think im better than people, that im high and mighty and have all the answers, but i believe as Ghandi believes "we must be the change we wish to see in the world" I believe that all it takes is one person to change things, and once others follow, you have more doing the same, and more, and more..."they can be a great people, they wish to be...they only lack the light to show the way"

But what does it matter when no one cares?

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10429041/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10429041/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:38:17 PDT
So me and a few friends are goin to the local pizza joint to get some lunch between classes and we see this old dude in an SUV literally swirving in the parking lot, dodging a car bakcing out and braking hard to avoid hitting some people(among these people were some kids). Me and my two friends are in the middle of parking lot going towards the pizza place. THe old guy looks right at us, and he executes a hard turn anyways, and amost hits us, literally within inches of hitting us. If my friends had jokingly shoved me while talking, or if anyone of them had stumbled, he would've hit us without a doubt.

So as he makes ths near miss, I smack his rear side panel with the back of my hand as we walk past. The old man in fear of thinking he hit someone, comes to a complete stop and steps out, frantically looking around to see if he hit someone, he stands there for a few minutes and then finally goes back into his car and drives off.

Do i feel bad? HELL NO!

karma in action:
He was driving like an asshole, so i become an asshole by scaring him into thinking he hit someone....while he was driving like an asshole.

it all came full circle, and I managed to balance my small part of the universe.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10416919/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10416919/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:53:02 PDT
Last weekend I had taken a girl out and got the chance for a second date, which was going to be the weekend that just past, but i was so burnt out that i never bothered to set anything up(and niether did she). At first i was somewhat bummed and i kinda get the feeling she doenst really want to go out again, but now...I kinda don't care.

Honestly, I've lost interest in her and i dont really feel like spending time and money to try and hold some girls interest and then maybe make out.

And for this girl, that would be the highlight of the whole thing, since we both don't see this as something that will go anywhere long term.

Where last week I was thinking i'd shoot for us having some fun and enjoying each other's company, now i dont care if we talk or not.

I guess part of it is also that I'm just getting fed up with women in general.

I'm getting sick of being the nice guy, even though I believe I need to be, I'm starting to give up on the idea of being one for a woman. They almost never notice, and a lot of times when they do, they dont see the guy as dating material.

So if they're not gonna care about who I am, then i'm not gonna worry about what they have to say, i'm not gonna pursue for the time being, the bottom line is the next time im gonna even thnk about putting effort into getting with a woman she's gonna have to really impress me, and looks alone will NOT cut it, I'm gonna need to be impressed by the whole package, and an open mind is def a must have.

If it were really something that i thought could be fun and worth it, it woulf FEEL that way, but it didnt with this girl. She didn't really impress me, and her close-mindedness didnt catch my fancy either.

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10287648/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10287648/ Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:26:28 PDT DeusExMachinaAO: we have to believe that we're fighting the good fight
DeusExMachinaAO: being the nice guy
DeusExMachinaAO: even when it seems that no one is paying attention, or listening
DeusExMachinaAO: if that's the only reason for doing wht we do
DeusExMachinaAO: then we we wouldnt be the nice guys
DeusExMachinaAO: we're not the ones that come to mind first
DeusExMachinaAO: we're not the ones people think of when they think about what they want
DeusExMachinaAO: we're the other guys
DeusExMachinaAO: the ones that care even when we shouldn't
DeusExMachinaAO: the ones that when asked "why do you keep doing it?"
DeusExMachinaAO: answer: "because its the right thing to do"
DeusExMachinaAO: and believe it
Hrothgar87: amen

]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10111481/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10111481/ Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:51:26 PDT get onto the front page fairly often, I for one have had art now get on the front page twice, it is indeed an anomaly.

But I would like to address some of the comments that my celebratory picture recieved. There are those of you that accuse me of refreshing over and over or say that my art sucks, fine, whatever. But at the end of the day I fail to see any of YOUR work making it to the front page, through glitch or otherwise. Not only that, I've checked out some of your profiles, and from what I've seen, some of your work sucks balls, i mean really, it needs work. And some of you call yourself "photographers" need to rethink that becuase you use the term loosely as far as I'm concerned. I mean some of those pictures are about as good as the emo-wannabe you find on myspace. And I take this tone only with those who took this tone with me.

This is dA people! We're supposed to be better than that here, I mean how can you really call urselfe a true artist if all you do is look at someones work and say "it sucks, you suck" ? I mean come on people have some class. And like I said earlier, for some of you to claim urself an artist is giving art a rather loose definition.

To those who took the time to not only comliment but also give me tips on how to improve, thank you, I very much appreciate it. To take the time to analyze and assess my art is something that I need and a reason I joined this site(plus all the kick ass art people have).

So, sorry that MY art is getting on the front page over YOURS, but better luck next time right? Maybe some glich that like crappy myspace quality photos or cheaper lineart than mine will come around and then YOU can get on the front page.

Again, to the real art lovers and real artists, to those that will give advice, compliment(and if they can't say something nice, just keep their mouth shut) I thank you, and you make dA a better site than most other places.

BUT

To those of you that decide to flame, bitch, and moan...in the words of the great Peter Griffin(Family Guy) "You people can kiss the fattest part of my ass!" ]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10091043/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10091043/ Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:42:41 PDT
And I feel really alone in this too...

Just another day I guess. ]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10079395/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10079395/ Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:46:22 PDT
My first dream was that I met up with a former friend. Her and I had a major falling out. Long story short, she tried to just ignore me and let us drift away, and i called her out on it and it ended very bitterly. I'm the kind of person that is loyal till death, but disrespect me, my friends, or family, and u have an enemy for life. She crossed the line and I havent changed my opinion of her since.

Thats why the dream is wierd/depressing, in the dream we met up again, we just wrote off wht happened as a stupid friend fight and called it a do-over, we spent a whole night on this date/catch-up thing, just having fun and talkiing...and it was really good. Then I woke up....

My other dream that was last night was that I became a father. My wife(I dont know who she is, cuz i didnt see her and as of right now im not dating anyone) died giving birth to my son. I remember holding him and he smiled and had all this hair, he looked like a picture of me when i was born, and i was showing him off to my family and I was this proud daddy....then I woke up.

It was like two good things that I thought happened, and really they didn't...I dont ever see my former friend/now enemy ever making up...and lately i feel like i'll never get my chance to be a dad, yeah i'm young, but im not gettin nay younger, and these colleg years have alrady flown by.

I dunno...i'm just down right now i guess... ]]> ~maldo71 http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10044416/ http://maldo71.deviantart.com/journal/10044416/ Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:45:50 PDT
My computer repair job I was laid off form because my boss decided that they were going to "make some changes" to how they ran things. Somehow that equates to getting rid of all student employees and making everyone reapply for their own jobs fomr scratch. I have a hard time seeing how a computer repair job can change so much that suddently my repair skills are de-funct, its not like we switched to Mac.

And my other job which is tutoring for Upward Bound(a program dedicated to helping kids get into college) doesnt have it in the budget to give me the hours i want and need. Not to mention the lady in charge doesnt like me and gets around giving me attitude by pulling passive agressive stunts like "forgetting" my availability and and somehow "forgetting" to email or call me to ask what those are(even though I've been working there longer than she has, and she remembered to email everyone else just fine). She should hate herself, I mean i'm not the one that brags about having a minor in linguistics but can't speak spanish worth a shit, might as well wipe ur ass with that diploma since thats about all its worth as far as i'm concerned.

So yeah, now I have to look for work in other places..like the gas station...and campus grounds keeping. I dont mind low-level labor at all, hell I need the money and as far as im concerned paying the bills is job one, whatever job I take that gets job one accomplished is fine by me.

It just pisses me off that I get screwed over like this. Not only that, I think it's a sad state of affairs when I can work at a gas station or pull weeds and still make as much money as someone who can fix a computer or help get a kid into college. ]]> ~maldo71