Practice Makes Perfect...Random Thoughts

I am panicing. What about? My future. Right now, I don't have a job or career. No money is coming in and pills are coming. I meant bills are coming but they are pills. The economy as a whole has stopped. Everyone needs to re-evaluate the sitution and then put it in the right course. But who are those people? The government? The same government, at all three levels, we hire as voters to do our, YES OUR, biding? And yet, screw it up everytime? Too many people have their hands out for our money. And its mostly the government's hands reached out because we gave them too much power. Then we have lobbiest who cater to our, YES OUR, elected (HIRED) officials so they can ease whatever they are promoting or trying to stop from happening. I wouldn't doubt there are some noble causes but lobbiest find a way to screw it up for the rest of us somehow. And oh by the way...they are voters too. SO HEY!!! We are screwing ourselves. Isn't that grand?

I was told by a good friend of mine to try to write something everyday to get a hang of this blog. Mine is called From My Head. Quaint isn't it? I like it. Words pop into my head and I try to put them in this blog with my fingers (sometimes working) and a keyboard (hooked up into the computer). So far, in my opinion, I'm not really good at this.....YET. But I plan to work on it. Get to the computer as much as possible. I like to thank her...she knows who she is. I guess right now I'm in random thought mode. Whatever pops in my head, my fingers put it in the blog. Dogs are barking because they are lonely. They miss Mommy and Daddy. But I'm here.

You know who's really good at this, is a comic book writer and novelist named Peter David (while I chew on a finger nail). I discovered him through an aquaintance who recommended me to read the Incredible Hulk issue #416 (i think). The writing was very witty and funny; the Incredible Hulk as a character wasn't the usual monster. He was intelligent and funny, not "HULK SMASH!". It was fun to read. Then I found he wrote a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel called "Q-Squared". Peter's story should've been a movie; it was action packed and a very entertaining story. I wish I could into more detail about it but I read it so long ago. But here is my point: Peter David wrote a column, for the weekly publication Comic Buyers Guide, called "But I Digress....". It's a hotch, potch article of all of his dealings with, from writing comic books, novels, movies he's seen or pitched ideas for, television shows watched, and things going on in his personal life that he would allow. But he really used that column to answer his critics and bash them a good one. Plus to really give his view of the comic book industry as a whole. In my opinion, is a dying art. THANK YOU INTERNET!!!! WHO WANTS TO READ ON PAPER?!?!?!?!?! I do believe comic books will survive but not like before.

The same goes for the economy. Hey another random thought. This feels like I'm conversing with the computer. Yes, the computer, my friend. It warms me with the glow of the monitor.......but I digress........

Maybe I should do some research and type up a cool article about something none of you want to know. Like the adverse affects of chewing one's own finger nails. For some reason, the voice of Sheldon has popped into my head. He is a character, played by Jim Parsons, on the CBS television show "The Big Bang Theory". "The Big Bang Theory" is a great little half-hour show about how physicists, well ok nerds, deal in the real world. Watch it and you'll see what I mean. It is the only television show I will stop whatever I'm doing to go watch. Monday nights at 8 o'clock. I hope Jim Parsons doesn't get type casted because he plays "Sheldon" too well. (At this time I got distracted by youtube.com looking for something. Ok I'm done) I'm looking for a video of actor John Lithgow doing his acceptance speech when he won an Emmy. But I think he said this when he ended it "God Bless Television!". And so I will end this. If anyone wants to correct me on this John Lithgow quote please do so by leaving a comment. I tried to find the video on youtube.com by looking up "Third Rock From The Sun" videos but I had no luck. Until next time....but I digress.....

Hey Look From My Head: Thoughts of the Unemployed Man-boy.

If I Only Had A Brain

This is only a test because to do this blog thing and attach it to Twitter and Facebook and whatever other technological feed I can torment with my bull.

Remembering A Good Day

Yesterday was a good day. And physically tiring mostly because I'm me like I put in the profile. But what I did was all worth it. I went to NAMM (National Association of Musical Merchandisers) Convention in Anaheim, California. This event for days long, starting on Thursday and ending late Sunday night. Of course, the best time for me to go is on Sunday because thats when a big group of us can go. And that group was three: Me, UFC Boy, & Man's Man. I really do wish a bigger group of us would go but they do have lives and well...I don't...but I digress (homage to Peter David)....

The driving was ok but crazy at times because I rented what I would consider a small car (I'm cheap) and traveling through "The Grapevine" can be a pain. Then there is actually being in LA. I-5 wasn't too bad at the time but we did vered off in the wrong direction away from the I-5. Yet we percivered and made it to our destination.

We were there for almost seven hours, looking at all the cool new things coming out. But my deal was the people I could meet like my musical heroes and musicians I currently respect and listen to. Met a lot of cool people and once again I realized I need a digital camera; my phone doesn't cut it. List of people I met: Gene Hoglan (drummer, Metalocalypse: Dethklok, Mechanism, Opeth, Testament, Dark Angel), Stanton Moore (drummer, Galatic, Corrosion of Conformity), Jean-François Dagenais (guitarist) & Stéphane Barbe (bassist) of the Canadian Death Metal Band KATAKLYSM!!! (it was really cool meeting them, being a metal geek), Ray Luzier (drummer, Korn, Army of Anyone), Johnny Rabb (drummer, Independant, U.S.S.A.). Meeting these people and getting to talk to them made all the difference. My feet didn't hurt, my abs didn't feel like cramping, my knees didn't swell up, so on and so forth. Man I'm getting old OR I need to really workout harder and eat smarter. Yes, this day was a good day. Politics suck.

The drive back you ask, well it was a little crazy because it was me behind the wheel with my eyes closed. But UFC Boy kept me in check and we made it home. Oh....we had a great dinner at the Carrows Kitchen in Bakersfield. Try the Mile High Roast Beef Sandwich; delicious. And the waitresses were cute and nice too.

Hey Look From My Head: My 2009 NAMM Experience.

Here is why I shouldn't have a blog

"I AM.....SMELLIN' LIKE A ROSE THAT SOMEBODY GAVE ME ON MY BIRTHDAY DEATH BED" That's why. Because I would copy from Scott Weiland and he is a MORON!!!!!

Hey Look From My Head: I drew a blank.