Seriously...

Not to be insensitive or anything of that nature, because when someone dies no matter if you knew them, loved them, liked them, or hated them it's sad. But with that said; now that it has been firmly established that Ryan Dunn was extremely irresponsible in his actions that ultimately took his and his friends life, can we stop portraying him as some sort of martyr? Seriously. He was a drunk driver. A drunk driver that has affected who knows how many lives because of his actions. I mean seriously, his fans and friends need to realize and accept that fact. I mean lets just say it was reversed. He was driving home and he was hit by a drunk driver, how much do you want to bet that his fans and friends would call for swift justice on the guy who hit him?
Also while I'm at it, why is that whenever a famous person of any nature dies of some irresponsible self inflicted accident, that they all of a sudden become a saint? Maybe it's being a prisoner of the moment or just seeing this person with blinders on, but people can never seem them as someone who threw their life away. Sure there are always going to be redeeming qualities from other portions of their lives, but they threw it away by not being smarter. As I said earlier, if it was say, your neighbor who died of a heroin overdose, would you view him the same way as someone like Keith Moon? He was a great drummer, but also an incredible fucktard.
So as hard as it maybe, something like this needs to be taken with a grain of salt. He was funny, probably a nice guy, BUT he was drunk driver who killed himself and his friend. People need to see that as well as him being what he meant to those around him.

You Know What You Should Do...

I guess that it might just be in our nature as people, but one thing that seems to bother me is when someone tries to should you to death. What do I mean by that? It's something that everyone has experienced in one form or another. Either you are predominately someone who is doing the shoulding or you are the one getting shoulded. To be honest, everyone falls into both categories at one point or another, but we are usually in one most of the time.
So what does it mean? Well, say you are in any situation, it doesn't matter, really. What happens is you relay it to a friend, a family member, coworker, group of people, or the local hobo. This person again, doesn't matter and is interchangeable. You tell them of your woes and then their reply goes something like this ..."You know what you should do? You should do this (insert some dumb ass thing that is very easy for them to suggest since they are not in the situation at hand)"...
How many times has this happened to you? How many times have you done it? I would say a lot in both counts.  I'm not really sure how or why this happens, but it is rather lame since this person who plays a member of The View in your life usually just spots off simple here say answers and when you explain by saying something like this "Yeah but, it's not that easy." They just stare at you like you are a deaf mute. I'm not sure why this happens but, it does and it gets rather annoying rather quickly. If anything it just adds to your problems. God damn people.

Brains, Brains, Brains!!!!!

This post is more of a me thinking out loud (on a blog, otherwise this would sound crazy) so just go with me on this one. So...I love zombies. Movies, books, whatever; I find them fascinating. I like the various takes that authors can have with it. You can focus on the survival aspects of it or the overwhelming numbers you'd face, and the list just goes on and on. There is one thing that puzzles me though: how the fuck are they alive if they are dead? I mean seriously. Can someone explain that to me. Because the thought is that a virus or whatever element the author chooses, brings them back to "life"; that's fine, I get it. But without trying to get to sciencey here and breaking out my internet PHD (coughs), from what I gather is that your brain controls everything in your body. It tells you when to breathe, move the joint in your pinky, or when to fart. So you die and everything is shutdown never to come back. But a zombie is able to reanimate and do everything a living person can do. How the hell does that work? If the central piece of equipment needed to live is turned off, how can you eat, stumble, or move your hands? I mean yeah it's fiction, and just like vampires every author has their own interpretation (which is good), but that little piece has always made me think.


P.S. Sunlight was never fatal to vampires until Nosferatu; again they took creative liberties, since it was an illegal version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. In that book it, just annoyed him.

Spring Cleaning

As I was doing some spring cleaning today/throwing shit I should have thrown out a long time ago, I decided to go through my portfolio and I was surprised at what I found. I found drawings and prints from what seems like another lifetime ago (even though it was only 5-6 years ago). Since I had a drawing instructor who was a Grade A dick/butthole/turd, I was under the impression that everything I had done back then sucked big time. I was actually surprised at what I found. I mean yeah sure some of it did suck and still does, but some of it wasn't half bad. It also brought back memories of the classes and experiences of things I was going through. I mean I found a picture of something that I used for reference material in my first ever drawing class in college; that blew my mind! The drawing was long gone, since it too sucked.
Under my bed, I was going through crap from my graduate school time (which is still ongoing btw) and found a bunch of sketch books from my time studying graphic design; whew. Those things were filled with some stinky shit. Yeah, some good to great stuff came out, but damn that other stuff, what a bunch of shit. I also looked at every print that I have ever done (just to keep everyone up to speed, I'm a printmaker). That was nice to look at. More so than my drawings and definitely more so than my graphic design work, I can see a nice and very steady progression through my work. It made me happy. It also gave me the motivation to keep going and get better.

Haven't I Already Seen This?

The summer is coming upon us and so to is the summer movie season. This season there seems to be a bunch of sequels (aren't there always though?). This summer one of the most anticipated ones is The Hangover Part II. Now as of this writing it hasn't come out yet, but I have already seen it. How is that possible? Simple. I saw it in 2009, it was called The Hangover. This seems to be with the exception of Escape From New York/Escape From L.A.,  one of the few instances where the writers and directors are literally giving the general public the middle finger and daring us to spend money on something that we have already seen. This isn't an instance where it's a similar plot or type of movie out already, IT IS THE SAME DAMN THING! If you don't believe me I have provided the posters for each movie. Look similar? Thought so. What about the trailers? Yup. What about the plot? Oh this time they are in Thailand. Never mind, totally different movie. Just forget about the fact that the same things are going to happen to the characters. I mean look in the poster/trailers, Ed Helms is missing a tooth and then gets a Mike Tyson tattoo! I'm sure that it will still be funny even though you will be able to telegraph the whole movie. Even though most people seem to realize that it is essentially the SAME movie, it will still make an ass ton of money and hopefully not spawn  a third installment. Also quickly, is there any other movie out that shouldn't have had a sequel more than this movie? I mean Alvin and the Chipmunks The Squeakquel was probably more of a departure from the first on than this movie will be! And this will probably make me seem like a hyporcite, but I am sure that I will eventually end up seeing it and laughing at it. Then I can just count myself in as one of the people that Todd Phillips (whose work I like BTW) gave the finger to.

U.G.L.Y. You Ain't Got No Alibi!

Not to slag on anyone who posts off of blogspot, because it is really cool that you can browse all 95 million jillion of them, BUT some of them look like pure dogshit. I'm not referring to the content because the great thing about this whole doo hickey is that anyone can write about anything and it doesn't matter; much like I do (really, though mine (both of them) are pure god damn gold). What I mean is that some people have some EXTREMELY ugly ass looking blogs. Terrible, terrible typeface choices (not completely their faults), ugly ass color schemes, and shitty photos. I'm not trying to say that both of mine are all that and a bag of salty potato chips, but I feel that since I go to a douchey art/design school and have been studying this stuff for longer than 2 days, I kind of know how to make something look like...not dogshit. So again, I'm slagging anyone who reads this and has a blog because it's great that you do even if it's about going to Walgreens for the day, it's just that your blog might look like ass.


And yes I am aware that writing this has put me in a glass house.

Hilarious!!!!!

Laugh tracks. Is there anything lamer? Okay maybe there is but for the purposes of this, there isn't. If you are a television producer or better yet an actor or writer who is involved with a shitty show that utilizes a laugh track, do the world a favor and quit. If I were associated with a show that had anything to do with a laugh track, I might change my name and get plastic surgery. Seriously it's that lame. Laugh tracks are used on shows that aren't, well funny. Not even a little bit. If a show uses a laugh track, it means that it's not funny and they have to tell you where the "jokes" are. Maybe if the writers wrote better jokes/stories shows wouldn't have to use them. Plus, if you think about it, the people who are on those laugh tracks have easily been dead since the 1970s' and that's being generous. Why can't shows just do one of two things: 1) Get a studio audience, or 2) Be like Scrubs and actually be well written so that you can figure out the jokes on your own and when you are supposed to laugh.

(Applause)