910

I've definitely got a boner for Hermann Hesse. I won't deny it. Don't think this means I think I'm all smart, or something. I mean, I'm not a complete dumbass, but yeah. And don't you go thinkin' you're all smart and better than everyone, either! Unless you are. Then, by all means, please do.

909

And that's the kind of drawing you get when I'm half-awake. Half meaningless symbols, half automatic drawing. You're welcome.

908

Pranks are pretty awesome. It's closing in on 6AM. I've had two meals today, and they were both actually about half a meal.

I was hanging out with a friend later in the evening for a little bit, and we had a hilarious exchange. "So," he began, "I got some head last night." He went on to tell me how it's nice to just get a blowjob from someone with no obligation.

"I wish I could just be into that," I said, "but I'm all emotional, and it's weird." I think I made him feel bad, so I made sure to say, "No, man, you go right ahead and do whatever you want," to let him know I wasn't judging him. Somehow, we got to the point where he was saying how much he loved breasts. I said, "I'm not really too concerned with them. They're cool and all, but I'm way more into legs," and for a moment, there was silence. "Man, I feel like a pervert right now."

He laughed and said, "Why, dude? I was just talkin' about the head I got last night. You're talking about girl's legs."

I think that does a pretty good job of summing up some things about me.

907

I didn't finish the movie yet, but I got about 45 minutes in and it was more than enough to know that this film is an example of it being popular because it's good, a trend I didn't pick up on until the third decade of my life, which it is strange to think of as near its end.

I have never been one to have any problems with getting older. I've always wanted to be the old dude. But, these days, I've been noticing that there is more to getting old than simply watching your body age. When you age, so does everyone else, and they start to have a lot of health problems, and our parents start dying, and everything gets pretty gloomy. Still, I managed to get all the way up to thirty without being a miserable wreck, so I'm not giving up now, and neither should you.

Don't be such a pussy.

906

Meh. Face wound.

905

Coffee at 9PM was not one of the better ideas I have had in a while.

Perhaps me posting these things on a daily basis is too much to hope for, the way it's gone the last month or so. I'm not too concerned about it, but it is nice to have them up daily, so sorry for that.

904

I wish the fireworks place hadn't been closed when we drove back home at 2AM, because I definitely would have wasted some money.

903

The singer from Unholy Grave told me I had an awesome voice, which kind of was pretty flattering, him being the singer from Unholy Grave and all.

902

901

It was the sort of day where everything kept going wrong. The phone was $200 extra. I got halfway through buying it and backed out so my current phone's SIM card got accidentally disconnected, which it took three calls and a couple of hours for customer service reps to figure out. (Not to mention the fact that I was late to work as a result of trying to get it all figured out.) When they finally did, 12 hours later, the girl told me to go to the store it happened at and they would give me a new SIM card and connect it for free. I got to the Apple store, had to wait in line for 20-30 minutes only to have the guy tell me they couldn't look up my information, and she must have meant to tell me to go to the AT&T store, which was less than fifteen minutes from closing. Fortunately, I got there in time and they gave me the SIM card and activated it, no problem, so the day was better at that point. I found a Daddy Long-legs crawling around on my walls when I got home, but that wasn't really a problem, it was just an odd day for it to happen, since I've never seen one here in over five years of living at the place.

Liz is a pretty cool girl, and as I said, it's nice to hang out with someone who laughs as much as me, and it doesn't hurt that she likes crappy jokes, just like me. We half-assedly watched Eagle Vs. Shark, but it was assedly enough for me to pick up on how rad the movie was, so I know I need to see it again. (I hate that I suck at understanding people with thick, or even medium. accents.)

As I sit and write this, I am about 24-hours from playing in El Paso at Let's Rage fest with Unholy Grave and Magrudergrind. It should be pretty awesome.

900

I'm pretty stoked to be just 100 panels shy of 1000, but at the same time, I feel like that's the last number that will really matter until 5000, which will be about ten years from now, so who knows if I'll still be doing this. I certainly intend to!

899

I think making and recording songs for Satan's Monk is the most fun I've ever had. I love horror movies, so I sort of feel like this is what I was meant to do. Being able to take films I love and make songs about them is just a great thing. not that I wasn't able to do this at any time before, it just never came together so well, before.

Stoked!

898

It's nice to feel like I'm back in the groove with The Monk. I feel like I have been slacking, even though I have written, programmed and recorded 26 songs in something like 18 months, it just doesn't seem that significant when it's only half an hour of music. I mean, at this rate, that's only twenty minutes a year. That doesn't sound anywhere near as impressive as 18 songs a year. Whatever the case, I'm feeling the fire under my ass again on this one. Oh, wait, that's just the hot sauce I used on that burrito. <---total lie

897

There's not really much to say here that needs to be said here.

896

I genuinely have absolutely no idea why I drew this, and I find it funny that I said, "I hate that I have to draw," and then went on to spend way more time on the background than most days.

895

I've been getting really excited about Satan's Monk, now more than ever. I'm working on a new batch of songs for two of my favorite movie series of all time, the first of which was the 25th Satan's Monk song, and we have the most solid line-up we have ever had, with Brady doing a ridiculously job singing, Jordan learning bass riffs in no time flat, and Robert being Robert, which will always be awesome.

894

I've been slacking a lot on updating this page, it seems. I would apoplogize, but I won't.

893

I tried to spend a little time on this drawing, having not spent enough time on the last two, and having been called out on slacking recently. I'm not going to give out names, but a friend's girlfriend was in a rollover wreck (bruised brain with some bleeding, no fatalities, luckily), a different friend has something going on where his left testicle is swelling to the size of a tennis ball and the whole area surrounding it hurts, I had my phone bill yesterday, of course, and there have been plenty of other random stories from people. not to mention the general distemper I seem to have noticed everyone in. Is this the effect of the economy? I sure wish someone would stop the economy from happening. It's just happening all over the place right now.

...

Seriously though, I do wonder if the failing economy is having this effect on the populace. I am noticing lots of people that seem to be increasingly unhappy. Even people that come into my work aren't as happy, and I work in the heart of the city where we get a broad variety of customers. So few have seemed upbeat the last week or two, while most of them are super cheery most of the time.

Who knows? It's probably just me. I'm a huge doucheknob.

892

Shaun alerted me that you could pre-order the iPhone 3GS, so we both did that. We don't pay until we get it, and essentially, it will be free once we eBay my current ones. I'm pretty friggin stoked to get one!

Sorry there's no drawing, but I had to explain a lot of stuff to show that my day was so up and down. I was really in an amazing mood when I woke up. Happy to be alive. I knew immediately that something was wrong.

891

"This is how I met Marla Singer."

890

This year has probably been the most solid year for movies I can think of. Or, more likely, I just wasn't paying attention to what movies were coming out before.

889

There are quite a few different billboards like this, but this is the only one I've actually seen while driving past.

Jay pointed out that I was slacking, since I hadn't posted for four days. I would like to point out that the Netzeah blog, which he authored, was recently deleted. Likely due to the fact that it hadn't been updated in over a year. So, a round of applause to Jay for calling me a slacker. I was a little behind on posting for a few days, but as you can see, I have been very busy, and I think that the billboard is hilarious enough to make up for it. And, honestly, it makes me really happy that it actually matters to someone when I'm slacking on posting.

Because I definitely was.

A round of applause to Jay for giving me the kick in the ass I needed!

888

No, it's not love, it's just a boyish crush. I don't even know her. All I know is that she's German and gorgeous and she can play a mean guitar and sing like...okay, I'll stop now. She probably has a boyfriend anyway.

887

I can not stress enough how happy I am with this line up for Satan's Monk. Shit, someone buy us a van.

886

This was one of those cases where I spent money I shouldn't have, but it turned out okay, because a couple things fell into place to give me more money than I thought I would have this week. Don't ask. I don't want to tell you about the heroin I sold while prostituting myself.

885

When The Fifth Element was in theaters, i saw it five times. I was thinking I would try to beat that with this movie, and see it six times, but after seeing it a third time, I'm feeling like it's not layered enough to warrant three more viewings within a month-or-so's time. I might see it three more times, I might not, but I certainly had no problem seeing it three times.

884

How is it that it takes me over an hour to get ready for bed these days? Oh, yeah. My comic. Between drawing it and posting it, there are too many opportunities to get sidetracked. Never enough sleep...

883

I really liked this book. I'll be honest and say that I couldn't grasp every word of it, as I don't truly believe myself to be an initiate (or whatever), but maybe I am. Who knows? Whatever the case, Levi had a very interesting perpective on The Apocalypse of St. John and The Prophecy of Ezekiel, and this is a book worth purchasing, if you're at all interested in relating occult symbolism to ancient religious texts.

The more little pieces of information I gather about the "underlying meaning" of The Holy Bible, the more I want to spend years studying it. It will be nice if I can find the time for that, one day.

882

Shit. Should have been asleep an hour ago.