Created on Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:31 am with 3 blog posts
My life as a young adult slash Homeschool teacher slash Cartoonist slash Painter slash Writer slash Game designer slash whatever else I'm doing at the time... Excerpts from my brain.
Just a quick thing; My little brother has a drum machine, you press buttons on it and it plays digital-sounding, repetitive music.
He had it set up in the living room and was dancing. Watching him, I came to a frightening conclusion...
Without any outside influence, he has independently invented the dance style popular in the mid-seventies, known as disco.
Song Running Through my Head: "At the Hundredth Meridian" By The Tragically Hip
Mood: Confuzzled
So we watched this movie last night, "Amazing Grace". And it brought up two things in my brain:
First and least important, there was a preview for "The Golden Compass" at the start, and it struck me as kind of ironic that such a powerful Christian film was preluded by an Atheist's answer to Chronicles of Narnia. (Not as bad as the "Harry Potter" ads before "The Passion of the Christ" but still...)
But more importantly, it got me thinking. Here's a man who spent his life fighting injustice, basically taking on one injustice after another. One of my biggest pet peeves about my generation is apathy, the general lack of care given to anything in particular. Now I know there's lots of injustice left in the world, I could just pick one and go. On the other hand I'm an artist, basically I spend a lot of time in my own little pineapple under the sea, creating in my head. On the other other hand, I see both sides of any issue WAY too readily... I'd be like the Scottish MP in the movie. That said, when I do pick sides, I like to think of myself as an Abominable Force; Just try to disagree with me on traditional marriage, herbicide resistant canola, or which Disney Afternoon cartoon was the best.
So basically, I'm torn between two extremes: "FIGHT TO THE DEATH FOR THE CAUSE!!!" and "Please Mr World, just go 'way and let me draw..."[/b]
Song in my Head The theme from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Mood: Contented
Quote: "Use what talents you possess - the woods would be silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best." -Dr. Henry Van Dyke.
I write this on a borrowed Dell laptop with a crack accross the screen, In a three-generation hand-me-down armchair, with a very contented Maine Coon cat on my lap. The sun is shining silver through the clouds, then through the window, and I can hear the sea breezes pushing through the trees. The clock is ticking in the background; An airplane flies overhead. I've just sat down from taking a homemade Riccota Cherry Cheesecake out of the oven. To top it all off I'm dressed in my favorite night-sky blue long-sleeved t-shirt with the stripe and baige cargo pants... I describe this scene, not because it has anything to do with anything, but because it just struck me how perfect things are, just in this moment. Mom is resting, Dad has the kids in the woods, shooting things with his sling-shot, (Not animals; there's a stop sign at the end of the trail that's a favorite target, maybe trees...) The house is perfectly quiet minus the breathing of the cat and the ticking of the clock... And the heater turning on and off... and the fridge doing the same... and the cars on the highway... and the neighbor's loud music... alright, so it's nearly perfectly quiet. But it's a happy moment of solitude, the kind I treasure...
....For about three hours anyway, then I start getting lonely. They'll all be back sooner than that though. Until then, I'll enjoy the quiet. After that, I'll enjoy the chaos...
....Here's the youngest now, loudly heralding the end of the solstice.
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