| DAYS OF THE FUTURE PAST |
[Apr. 11th, 2012|03:16 pm] |
NEW NEWS:
The dog and I moved to Philadelphia in February. At long last we were finally free and we have not squandered our luck, sometimes to a fault. It's been fun and I've been seeing someone who I like a whole lot. Things just feel... good.
We talk about the future and I really hope that it all happens. |
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| FALL '11 |
[Oct. 13th, 2011|08:13 am] |
Laundry list:
Dad is all moved out, I have no official ties to Northwest CT anymore.
I need to hightail it here soon myself. Looking around for a nice place for me and the pup to rest our heads. Need to decide if we're sticking around until Winter is dead or if we're leaving to find the sun asap.
Did I tell you I was an extra in The Dark Knight Rises? That was cool, I went to Pittsburgh for it in early August.
Drawing. Always drawing.
Missing some old friends that aren't on Facebook. This is what people must've felt like in the 20th century. This song goes out to M + T, with a dash of N thrown in there because I worry.
It only ever seems to rain.
Everyone has nice haircuts. I'm still growing mine out after the last cut back in June (?), it was an awful one.
That's good enough. Good night enough.
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| Thrived. |
[Jul. 8th, 2011|12:04 pm] |
I went to write this as a grand update on my happenings, but now I'm just going to try to skim around and sum it up real concise-like. Right now I am at my dad's house which I lived at most of my teen life and even some of my 20's too.
I'm dog sitting 4 dogs (3 of his and my sweet dog Jill who LOVES the country) for the week and it's been nice. He's moving in August or September, and this place will never be seen or heard from again. In a way, I'm glad - it never really was the same after my parents split up or after he rented out some rooms or even all the crazy remodling that was done recently. It's just a shell of a home. But as I've been spending more time here lately, it's been a familiar shell. Sure, my old room is now full of moving boxes and hasn't had any of my posters on the walls for a very, very long time but it's shape and feeling has embraced me with a phantom's comfort.
Going through old things, packing - it's weird. There's love letters, pictures and various other momentos put in boxes. I still remember where everything came from. Why am I still holding on these things? For a while it was because emotions always stuck with me for some reason, I could never shake sadness or pain so easily. I'm still not the greatest, but I'm certainly unrecognizable to any of those times, people or places. Every relationship an improvement, a lesson of who not to be. Friendships come and gone, making me a bit more callous but a lot more developed in what it takes to be a person worthy of loving, of hanging around with. Let other people pick the music, every girl has to smoke a cigarette at least sometimes, timeliness. All of these things are representing in records, notes, comics, whatever. The point is I'm able to look back older and wiser and I'm also not ashamed to say I loved every goddamn moment. When I need to I can think back to a place in time with someone or just by myself and remember what I felt and who I was. When I said I loved you, especially in the beginning I would look into your eyes and just say it to make sure you knew that I did - I hoped my stare would really tell you how I was feeling. That I was happy to be with you - I liked going to dinner with you especially.
And I'm happy now. I LOVE making new memories and moments. If you just stay loose and live in the now everything will be okay. I don't know where I'm going with this, I guess I just needed to talk. Getting out of the city, watching cable - I'm enjoying pop culture. I'm over guilty pleasures, I want to be able to relate to my peers again. I'm through thinking everything is shit, I'm staying open minded. I feel like I was always in a rush to leave this place and now that I can soon never come back I am sad.
My 20s were a total 180 from my teens, but I was a great teenager and I just wanna give him a hug and a high five. The 2 of us have worked hard and are building something that I am going to adore in my 30s. It's going to start as a camp and end as a castle.
How's that for concise? |
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| JB Q |
[Apr. 22nd, 2011|11:24 am] |
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| Get lonely |
[Apr. 22nd, 2011|11:04 am] |
"I know people get lonely because I do, so that's what I end up writing songs about, how you get lonely sometimes and come up with these big ideas that give you meaning for a second but then leave you like everything else leaves you." Cass McCombs, in a handwritten note.
Quoted in a review, and it really stood out to me. |
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| Perverted girl |
[Mar. 31st, 2011|06:26 am] |
My new favorite thing is to get stoned and walk around the city at night with my headphones on. Up early watching last night's Justified I downloaded earlier. 6 pages into a 12 page comic and it's my dream project. Loving every minute of creation. Jill is sleeping at my feet I'm ready to pass out myself. I love that dog. Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone. |
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| Journal entries of the past and present. |
[Jan. 21st, 2011|06:39 pm] |
Not much going on with me gang. Freelance artworking mostly right now, with some writing gigs here and there. That's been fun. Launched a store for original art: http://weedcoat.bigcartel.com
Just finished a NSFW free digital zine full of babes I drew from old porno mags. That's a drawing from it above and you can download it here.
I've been listening to Rhino's box set compilation "One Kiss Can Lead to Another" that's just all amazing lost songs from girl groups. Ellie Greenwich's "You Don't Know" is incredible: I've listened to it at least 3 times a day since I downloaded this thing. Hear it here: http://fuckyeahgoteam.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-song-ever-you-dont-know.html
Jill and I are adjusting to city life. It's been pretty cool, living with Elise has been nice. Got a ton of new projects coming up, almost done with the last comic for my new zine, and submitted a bunch of stuff to some publications. Starting up a collective with a buddy too. Woo! |
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| NH11 |
[Jan. 1st, 2011|10:49 pm] |
Happy new year / 2011 dudes. Moved into our new apt yesterday. We unpacked a ton today and Jill is loving it. Found a great park for her like five minutes away. Also checked out the local comic shop: pretty dece. Our studio is mostly set up but Elise needs to bring her desk over tomorrow to complete it. It is pretty dope, I gotta say. Got some rad Indian delivery last night, and it was a fine end to a pretty okay year. Blowing up. Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone. |
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| A return to the past. |
[Dec. 28th, 2010|01:02 pm] |
I was offered a tour in mid-Jan with some friends to tour manage and do merch. It's just two weeks, it pays and Elise was very excited & supportive about it. It'd be nice to do one last tour honestly, the only thing holding me back is I've never been away from Jill for more than a few days and the 3 of us will have only been in the new apartment for a few weeks. Still... the open road, the country. It's tempting. I'll keep you posted. Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone. |
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| Galloping into the sunset. |
[Dec. 1st, 2010|05:32 pm] |
So let's talk, journal.
I am writing and drawing daily. That's insane and really fun. I find my artwork improving and have found a comfortable, personal way to write my scripts. It can't be beat. My newest digital comic PRINCES is online now, 7 pages and available for downloadable enjoyment: http://www.radicalfortress.com/comics/PRINCES.pdf. I am already hard at work on the next chapter in this series of crime comics. Here is page one:
So that's that. What else? The relationship between Allison and I had become strange and uncomfortable so a day was called. It was shortly after our end that I began vomiting large amounts of blood. Hospital sleepovers, blood work, x rays and cameras down the throat later revealed a possible tumor or ulcer. Good stuff. But I have been handling it well. And an old friend named Elise became a new friend and now a girlfriend. I don't ever like to jump from one relationship to another as it seems unfair to the other person, but I am quite over my past and very head over heels for this beautiful creature. It's been incredible. That's about it. My apt Camp Rad is fantastic but I am moving in January to be closer to my ladyfriend and back into the big city life. I look forward to a year in New Haven, a place I've wanted to try out for quite some time. After that, come early 2012 will be the next move, but for now I will be keeping that plan a secret to not jinx it. It's going to take hard work and I can't wait to get started. I'm 26 next week. If this entry has typos or makes no sense, I am placing the blame on the fact that this was written on the LJ app on my iPhone. Bravo, technology. Rest in piece, handwriting. XOXO Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone. |
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