Thursday, January 30, 2014

Under The Training Book: Talking To Mar about flavors and poops



     An example of morning conversations and some of the things that come out of my mouth which puts Mar in a state of having to hear these things before going to work and just facing the world. It's hard for her dealing with my insanity and then the worlds.
     Mar-“I threw up corn, apples, and peas last night.”
     Me-“So a melody of flavors?”
     Mar-“no.”
     Me-“No right?”
     Mar-“Nope. It’s medley.”
     Me-“Same difference.”
     Mar-“STOP SAYING THAT!!!”
   
     Our conversations in text messages can be even more insane and are like this when one of us is sick and the other one cares so much :)
     Mar: i'm bored
     Me: dude, I got the poops bad
     Me: really bad
     Me: Its probably to do with my nerves and the migraine I had all yesterday and last night.
     Mar: you need to make sure you drink water
     Me: I'll try........BUT ITTTS WATER
     Mar: no buts
     Mar: hehehe, butts
     Me: oH, go read a book
     Mar: blah blah blah
     Me: But I'm also craving hamburgers, fries, and a soda. Funny ant it?
     Mar: "I kind of like eating shit"
     Mar: that's you
     Mar: Nick Frost
     Mar: In The Worlds End
     Me: One, that's a compliment and two, watch it or I'll stuff a birthday cake down the toilet.
     Mar: "fuck off, you big lamp"
Me:
     Me: That's going to be my costume next Halloween
     Mar: you do that
     Me: I would make a good sad, old, pathetic, man who still is holding on to the last strings of the thread that his life has meaning.
     Mar: you are so emo
     Me: I POOPED AGAIN!!!
     Mar: Lunchbox
Me:
     Our text or private message conversations almost always include memes these days. I like it, it's a quick way to be a smart ass.

While writing this playing on my Pandora shuffle:
-Poker Face by Lady Gaga
-Turning Tables by Adele
-Just Like A Pill by Pink
-U + Ur Hand by Pink
-Policy Of Truth by Depeche Mode
-6th Ave Heartache by The Wallflowers
-Uptight by Green Day
-Big Pimpin by Jay-Z
-So Fresh So Clean by Outkast
-Everlong by Foo Fighters

     The monthly free Tin Universe story series returns with scenes of insanity, reality, and a mention in there somewhere about some gross gravy. Tin Universe monthly is a short story, vignette, flash fiction series that explore and uncovers the wider Tin Universe leading up to and between books. 

     Monthly image posts to the God Mark website telling a continuing story of friendship, world horror, and the madness of a world marked for one reason and one reason only, a reason of birth and destruction.

     A new issue of Tin Universe Monthly is uploaded and ready to read for free on the 22nd of every month throughout 2014.

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Under The Training Book: While Writing There Was Bad Samaritans and The Police



      Recently I watched more random first episodes of shows on Netflix while writing. The following are my brief thoughts about each one and whether I will be adding them to my Netflix queue…it’s still a fucking queue, I ant having with any of this “My List” bullshit. You can take our freedom Netflix but you can never take OUR QUEUES!!
     It's 8:08am, you think you'll getting comedy gold.
     Onward.
     Bad Samaritans: The little A-Team like sequence was pretty good but otherwise…nope, sorry. Again a show that wants to have an edge but in fact has as much of an edge as a basketball or the universe. If I an high network person and I watched this pilot I would send it back with a note that said “Watch My Name Is Earl and come back after you put more hard work into this.”
     Traffic Light: I can almost taste the hipster vibes coming off this show and it tastes like thinking you are doing something no one else understands but the truth is you are just as lame as someone trying to enter a swimming competition when you can’t, in fact, you know, swim.
     Sons Of Tucson: I like Tyler Labine a lot so maybe this will turn out to be good.  Old school sitcom premise but besides Labine nothing appealing. Again, another U.S. sitcom that doesn't see that it's walking into dark waters and needs to play within them to make things pay off to their full potential. This show is so close that I want to give it another go and watch more but so many things in my queue and so little time. Might change my mine later though.
     Accidentally On Purpose: Will I have anything to enter my queue from this group? I’m betting against it looking at the surface and description of this show. I like Jenna Elfman and Ashley Jensen. I like Jenna Elfman and Ashley Jensen. I like….. I think you get my feelings on this.
   
     *Next week, I’m probably going to watch some randomly picked anime series and watch the first episodes of those. The random picks are Attack On Titan, Black Butler, Welcome To The NHK, and Tenchi Muyo GXP.

      While writing this playing on my Pandora shuffle:
-Blood Of Heroes by Megadeth
-Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic by The Police
-Some Unholy War by Amy Winehouse
-I Don't Wanna Be In Love by Good Charlotte
-Meant To Live by Switchfoot
-Angel On My Bike by The Wallflowers
-It's Not My Time by 3 Doors Down
-Unwell by Matchbox Twenty {this song sums me up pretty perfect right now in my life
     {Is Walgreens the only ads on Pandora because its the only ones I ever get?}
-Moneytalks by AC/DC
-Na Na Na by My Chemical Romance
     {Today's playlist shuffle seems to have been more Mar's music than mine. Probably pissed that I played Hank Green songs over and over all day yesterday and skipped way more than you are meant to.}
     *I might start putting the while writing music lists on all my blog entries? I enjoy all kinds of music and also like talking music and discovering new musical artists I haven't heard before.

     The monthly free Tin Universe story series returns with scenes of insanity, reality, and a mention in there somewhere about some gross gravy. Tin Universe monthly is a short story, vignette, flash fiction series that explore and uncovers the wider Tin Universe leading up to and between books. 

     Monthly image posts to the God Mark website telling a continuing story of friendship, world horror, and the madness of a world marked for one reason and one reason only, a reason of birth and destruction.

     A new issue of Tin Universe Monthly is uploaded and ready to read for free on the 22nd of every month throughout 2014.

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Under The Training Book: New Merch is a notebook about being a writer



     First up a change in blogging schedule. I was stupid trying to post my Sunday Night Movie Night entries night of because after spending time with my friends I come home and even if I don't go to sleep I'm in no shape to write up a ton of stuff and work on pictures and so those entries will be moved to Monday and on Sunday now will be Questioned stuff so I can do it in the morning before getting ready for the days fun. One of the things that makes doing these daily blog entries work for me right now is I start my day working on them so its a good creative energy shot to the system.
     But enough about my delusions of readership, this is Tuesday and Tuesday is New Merch day where once a week I post something new I created for one of my Zazzle Stores. Creating these items are another creative release for me.
     I made the below linked notebook a couple weeks ago after me saying something on Twitter about how it took me years to find any sort of peace with my writing. I put my response on the cover of the notebook with a pictures from going to see Tron 2 in 3D years ago.
     When I create new merchandise items I try to create stuff I would like to buy. I wouldn't mind having one of these notebooks in my ready to go notebook stack, to be there when the need calls. And I will be buying more stuff from my Zazzle stores when I get a new job and when that happens I'll also post reviews of the final product to let people in all honesty what I think about the product.

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     The monthly free Tin Universe story series returns with scenes of insanity, reality, and a mention in there somewhere about some gross gravy. Tin Universe monthly is a short story, vignette, flash fiction series that explore and uncovers the wider Tin Universe leading up to and between books. 

     Monthly image posts to the God Mark website telling a continuing story of friendship, world horror, and the madness of a world marked for one reason and one reason only, a reason of birth and destruction.

     A new issue of Tin Universe Monthly is uploaded and ready to read for free on the 22nd of every month throughout 2014.

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

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Monday, January 27, 2014

Sunday Night Movie Night with chili, Game Of Thrones, and non-shitting babies



     After a couple nights cancelled because of life the gang is back together for another Sunday Night Movie Night. It's a gathering of crazy on the scale of a morning thought from Warren Ellis or being inside the head of the great Phyllis Diller during sex.
     There was talk about pregnant men in love with rejecting cops, non-shitting babies, Bieber, books, food, and scary ways to die all while watching National Treasure and Game Of Thrones.
     But before we get to any of that, though most of our conversations couldn't make it into a blog entry without arrests and shutdowns to follow, cleaning must happen. Our apartment is a falling apartment, owned by fuckcraps, shit zone but we try to clean it the best we can, especially when we have royalty coming over.
     Cleaning is one of the best things about Sunday Night Movie Night. No really. It makes me get off my ass and clean the place from top to bottom....or close to it at least once a week when I've been lazy during the week emoing about  my life.
     Though I think we may have killed another vacuum already and we just got this one on Black Friday.
     Let me change that to the cats and crappy carpet killing another vacuum.
     After I started cleaning I stopped for a break to make breakfast before we forget to eat. Turkey and cheese scrambled eggs. While cooking I was singing Don't Stope Believin in the kitchen to protest signs from mar and the cats.
     As I cleaned Mar made chili and cornbread. It's one of the few dishes she makes but its always really good. This time she experimented and tried chopped tomatoes instead of tomato paste. I think it worked out really good.
     I texteded Queen to see if she was up and also let her know my rapping to Mo Money Mo Problems was something she was missing out on. You people should be jealous you don't get to listen to the glorious noise that is me trying to sing. That's more motivation for me to start a YouTube channel.
     On the drive to pick up Queen we stopped off at the grocery store. I drooled over bad grocery store sushi because even bad sushi is sushi. We grabbed some tea and then hit back on the road listening to AFI and arguing over which is the better CD of theirs. I say it's Decemberunderground. I think I win.
     I also do.
     I don't.
     The drive back had from picking Queen up had her telling stories and me telling her she seriously needs to write a book. She's really talented and I think some the stories she tells would make great short stories or a flash fiction collection. I've read stories she's written before and actually as I type this I'm bugging her to do it by text messages.
     Queen made cookies and her mom made rice for us. Her mother and her are great cooks. I love her moms rice big time. I don't know what she does but it always turns out better than mine. Maybe it's the magical pot she cooks it in. I should have snatched it and took it to a lab for study to uncover its secrets.
     It didn't take the ladies long to to find their seats and get into talk, a movie, and the cookies. Though I had already eaten several on the drive back to the apartment.
     Everyone thinks I sit in the back so Queen and Mar can talk.
     Not true.
     I set in the back so I sneak and eat any food that just so happens to be sitting to the side of me.
     We winged it on what to do for the night. Thought about playing games or just watching the National Treasure movies but when we found out Queen hadn't seen Game Of Thrones and wanted to after the first film we were watching boobs, beheadings, and butts, and trying not to spoil anything for her but its so hard.
     Mar found herself looking up something she thought I was making up but it turned out I was right.
     How do you like that lady.
     BOOM!!!
     Queen was, as she usually does, trying not to have her picture taken by me but I'm a sneaky bastard at times.
     TEXTING YOU :)
     Inside joke, sorry.
     As usual the drive to take Queen home was just as entertaining as any other part of the night, sometimes even better because on the drive we are tired and more than likely to be even crazier.
     Having friends to spend time with is a very good thing to have in your life. Friends, food, and the willingness to always GO THERE is a hallmark when these three people get together.
     After Mar went to bed I tried to stay up watching The Day Of The Doctor and write this blog entry but failed completely.

     The monthly free Tin Universe story series returns with scenes of insanity, reality, and a mention in there somewhere about some gross gravy. Tin Universe monthly is a short story, vignette, flash fiction series that explore and uncovers the wider Tin Universe leading up to and between books. 



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     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Under The Training Book: I Wish I Was Brave About....being in public



     I want to first thank people for the emails I got on last weeks I Wish I Was Brave About...YouTubeing. I appreciate each and every letter. Even the "Go kill yourself" ones inspire me in a different way.
     This week I wanted to talk about being in public. Another side fuck up about having problems with the way I like is doing things around other people. I'm not talking about big things here. I've never been a party person or someone who liked...well, people all that much but there are still things I'd like to do that I hold myself back from.
     For examples my local comic book shop holds different events all the time. One of the events they do from time to time is a store quiz night. I would love to take part in something like this. I think it would be really fun. They also have a comic book discussion night and other events that I hold myself back from attending because of how I think others will think about the way I look. I just couldn't handle it and the more I like people, the more the place is somewhere I like, the more I think and think and think and hold myself back.
     Even going out to eat I can twitch when someone is laughing nearby thinking are they laughing at me. Eating is always painful but one of the biggest pains is if I'm in public or around someone not Mar, though in general I don't like people who aren't Mar, I don't eat or I'm constantly looking to see if they are looking at me while I'm eating.
    When going to job interviews feels like you are in a spotlight of judgment of your looks, when catching yourself laughing can make you close your mouth, leave that place of fun, and begin to fall into thoughts even among friends hurt. It makes you wish you could be braver.

     The monthly free Tin Universe story series returns with scenes of insanity, reality, and a mention in there somewhere about some gross gravy. Tin Universe monthly is a short story, vignette, flash fiction series that explore and uncovers the wider Tin Universe leading up to and between books. 



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     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

NEW!!! TIN UNIVERSE #12


     The monthly free Tin Universe story series returns with scenes of insanity, reality, and a mention in there somewhere about some gross gravy.

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     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Under The Training Book: I Wish I Was Brave about YouTubeing



     On Saturdays I talk about personal stuff I wish I had more talent and at times less cowardice to try.  Cowardice is the word I use. It's meaning really isn't apt but it's what comes from my inner voices.
     This week the subject will be starting a YouTube channel.
     This is a day late because of getting behind and not posting on Friday until Saturday and also because while writing this I keep deleting bits and then adding them back and then.... well, you get the picture.
     I've been really wanting to do internet videos since before it was really possible. Be it a personal vlog or some kind of fiction series this has been a scratch I've wanted to scratch or itch... I wanted to scratch… or something like that.
     Doing online video projects has always been at the back of my mind. With my second book I wanted to do a series of five minutes videos with me dressed as each character because I couldn't find anyone to act in them but I chickened out. The only thing I ever did was a really crappy book trailer for that second book.
     It’s called The Past Forward by the way, check it out here.
     I pimp because I've mentioned it twice.
     And because I can.
     And because who else will if I don't.
     The thing is with my brain I think too quickly sometimes to get stuff down on paper the way it’s in my head. I do honestly believe I'm at my best when discussing a topic or telling a story when I'm doing it's face to face so to speak.
     Though with my accent and inability to pronounce anything right it’s still an adventure.
     But the problem is one of the faces in the face to face, namely my face.
     Long story shortish. I've had a problem with my teeth and jaw for a long time and just when I was starting to have these issues fully addressed I was laid off a few years ago. These issues aren't just a matter of having teeth pulled, which I still need more pulled, but also jaw realignment and probably further surgery but I’m not here to discuss how much pain I’m in or anything. I helped bring myself to this point by not addressing these issues when I did have money and insurance. I mentioned these things for better understanding. Just as I'll also say there was a case of sexual abuse when I was younger which also plays a part of how I see myself still to this day. These are things I'm laying on the table so you might understand anything, if that's possible, that I will be talking about.
     I’m here to talk about fear, how I’d love to vlog but I look like this and this isn't good enough, this body and especially the face. All my life I've had body image disputes that I've raged with myself over how I look but for years those disappeared. Good friends and and life outreach helped in calming my mind some in those years. Then with being laid off, having a cancerous friendship that took forever to get out of my life, not being able to find steady work for years, and how I look now those patterns have come back big time in my daily thoughts.
     I've recorded many vlog episodes many times and tell myself that I don’t care what anyone thinks but then I deleted them.
     I’d recorded an episode and told myself you know better to read the comments anyways but then I deleted it.
     I've recorded an episode and told myself I could record these as a sort of secret video journal and not post them and if things don’t turn around for me I could leave these behind but then I deleted them.
     When the mirrors aren't torturing enough I tell myself I can’t do it because I don’t have a good camera and when I see the laptop camera is good enough I tell myself the microphone sucks on the laptop and when someone gives me a mic to use I tell myself I should be paying more attention to the mirror about how this just isn't a good idea.
     I really want to do a vlog. I want to have my own show, channel, whatever, but I don’t have the courage.
     I don’t have bravery.
     I don’t have bravado.
     I don’t have nerve.
     I don’t have guts.
     I don’t have backbone.
     I don’t have daring.
     I do have a Thesaurus as you may have noticed but I’m also a coward.
    One day I’m going to do it though.
    One day because I’m inspired by Vlogbrothers
    One day because I’m inspired by Amanda Palmer
    One day because I’m inspired by Kevin Smith
    One day because I’m inspired by Amanda Chronicles
    One day I’m doing to do an episode and hit upload and you will get another view of my brain leakage, venom, and joy.
    I will be writing these I Wish I Was Brave about blog entries every Saturday not only because it helps to get it out sometimes but also because others might be feeling the same way. All of our pains are unique but none of it's new. There are others out there feeling the same way so it’s good to know this. It’s good to see you aren't the only one. That depression and body image is a problem many have. That it’s not just for young people. That's it's not just something women face. And sometimes its best to find inspiration until you get to a moment when you can say FUCK IT and take a step you have always wanted to take and paint, write, draw, blog, sing, or vlog.

     Tin Universe #12 The Tin Universe series that started it all...all being one novella, one novel, and about nine short stories, returns this month. And a plus it's free. Ever month you get free me to plug into your brain holes. 

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.


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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Under The Training Book: Brain Leakage from pizza person torture to empirelism



     Welcome to Brain Leakage Fridays where if your not following my Twitter and Facebook you will get to see some of the random thoughts and postings I drop and roll onto the internet.
     "Drop and roll onto the internet"?
     I have no clue either?
     If you do follow me on Twitter and Facebook I'll try to expand on these thoughts a little more to make it worth reading again.
     This didn't post on Friday for some reason and I can't find it saved anywhere; so I'm going to post it here, now, a day late on Saturday and Saturdays entry will post tonight.

     *When it comes to posting conversations here I have with people on other social networks I don't do it without asking permission; so to save time from having to contact people I'm not going to include those things here unless I can post my side of the conversation and it still be worth reading.
     Plus, I use Twitter a lot and you don't want me to post everything here from a week all at once.
     I'm also going to try and not post something that I'm posted on the blog before in another entry.
     I make blogging way to complicated. No wonder I take long breaks sometimes and don't blog for long stretches. I make it such a big to do.
     Fridays will be sort of a recap of my brain leakage during the week with maybe some corrected spelling and bits of extra bullshit.... or after a lot of copy and pasting I'm just hit publish and get on with it.
     
     Twitter: @hangofwednesday
I like to send the pizza person out into bad weather and answer the door as Professor Chaos!
I haven't had one soda to start the new year but these headaches are making me weak  willed and pissed off.
Found Doctor Who: Series 7 Part 2 at Wal-Mart really cheap while picking up incense and computer screen wipes. Score.
Up late writing with The Trial Of A Time Lord playing in the background.
I've been blogging basically every day in 2014 so thinking about going back to themed days???
Though then I'll probably stop because you know...blogging and usually when I make a blogging sch the drive to blog jumps out my brain.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters while trying to make my way through some emails and stuffs.
That movie was ok. Some cool visuals. Nothing I'd watch again but standard stuff and good for Netflix viewing.
Now to get some writing done with All Creatures Great And Small playing in the background.
writing break to eat and watch Drinking Buddies.
Drinking Buddies wasn't what I was expecting. Watched because of Wilde/Kendrick but it was good. Some really good subtle performances.
watched Toast. A 4 star movie. Good writing and acting. 
Me"Its to early for questions." Mar"Well stop saying stupid things." Me"Thats too big of a demand on our relationship."
watching House On Haunted Hill to start my writing day
My lunch jam is watching Waiting For God and eating sun dried tomato hummus.
Good fan news on the Gotham show and the Ant-Man movie. Cool stuff.
People get upset to just be upset because you know it had to be a name from the comics and the right one OR EVERYTHINGS RUINED
Stuck In The Middle With You just came on our Pandora and here I am without a ear in reach not my own.
I just today caught up with web shows that started stacking up before Nov. Now to try and catch up on podcasts.
I woke up, flipped on Pandora, and Come On Eileen is the soundtrack to starting my day.
Talent includes ability, also effort and goals. I think learning what your true goals are is important. Then the doors change.
I learned a while back the doors I wanted to open weren't really for me. I was my worst enemy because I saw stars and not roads.
I love Ed Wood.
A friend gave me a recipe for roasted orange garlic chicken breasts. Writing break to get that prepped into the marinating phase of things.
Five minutes ago I was in the kitchen prepping stuff dancing and singing to Stronger. You are so jealous you don't get to hang out with me?
How to get work done when you are waiting for an email that you'll need to answer right back?.... Well, I'm waiting for an answer?
In the ancient times of the internet a great philosopher said something something something about a watched inbox.
Since Jesus by definition is a demigod, then I wonder when he will make a appearance in a Rick Riordan book?
With some much great fan art online I don't understand why more companies don't say "We'll pay you for that and commission more"
The best posters, DVD case art, and t-shirt designs I see are fan created and companies are stupid in business not seeking these talents out.
Did someone out there say, Girl Scout cookies soon..... ? ? ?
So Florida, you start the year with a dog fucker and someone shot in a theater for texting. Way to cheap the charm going.
My today is now tomorrow. My yesterday was in the kitchen. The future is a hard work.
Pandora starts my day with Turn The Page by Bob Seger. Seems appropriate to me.
I haven't had any soda in the new year and not much sugar at all either. I bought some tea yesterday IT HAS SOME SUGAR IN IT !
Rolling In The Deep by Adele is a good song to start the day with.
Our Pandora shuffle goes from Adele to Merle Haggard to Maroon 5 to Ramones to N.W.A.
Normal writing day. Spontaneously jump up singing stuff like "Anyway you want it, that's the way..." and then calmly get back to writing.
Isn't saying your story is like "------" and "------" sort of the fan fiction of marketing? Something you should grow away from in time?
Pandora just hit me with American Pie. Where's my stage to begin singing and acting out what each part means?
Bringing a kid to a noisy resturant BAR and expecting them to behave shows a great deal of selfishness on your part.
People who wear a ear blue tooth make pager people from the 80's look cool.
Dinner is fish & chips, tator balls, and smashed tators. Its a starch feast.
3 out of 5 stars for Andre The Giant: Life And Legend.
3 out of 5 stars for The Shadow: The Light Of The World.

     Facebook: My Facebook Page
     Two years ago I had a revelation that I wanted to be a writer. Not a published writer, not a famous writer, not a well read writer, and not a "------" writer. A writer. Many may not see what that means but it meant everything to me. Life changing.
     Friend-"If you don't like Superman much then give me a quick without thinking description of him as he is to you." Me-"Big strong white guy comes to a foreign land to help save the native people from themselves. Kind of sounds like empirelism doesn't it?" I actually never thought of Superman that way until that moment.
     A friends response to someone saying she can't comment on the treatment of children because she doesn't have any. "Ok, then lets show snatches or rip that fucking bumper sticker off your truck and stop telling me how to use my vagina asshole!"
     Everything is about using the days you might have left to do what makes you you. We aren't promised a fucking thing for tomorrow, not even a tomorrow, but we all do have a today until its gone.


     Tin Universe #12 The Tin Universe series that started it all...all being one novella, one novel, and about nine short stories, returns this month. And a plus it's free. Ever month you get free me to plug into your brain holes. 

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.


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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Under The Training Book: Talking With Mar and Pandora, Continents, and a Bingo



     Saturday we spent most of the day reading and listening to music on Pandora. At one point Mar was dancing around singing, "Whats cooler than being cool, ice cold!" My day was golden already at that point. It had to only get better from there.
     We needed to go out to run errands but first decided to stop off at Denny's for breakfast since neither of us remembered to eat before leaving the apartment. I go to Denny's BECAUSE its a old people hangout. These youngins that were there were just too loud.
     Damn you young people, get off my yard and stop with the louds, my ears, my ears.
     Denny's is also a good place to eat all your feelings in one sitting.
     After eating and running errands we got back home and were playing Scrabble and listening to more Pandora when Ready To Die: The Remaster came on and the day was cranked up another notch. Mar was playing DJ using Pandora and for the most part wouldn't let me have the remote. It was a power trip of Pope proportions.
     I was cooking as she had moved the soundtrack to a, And Then There Was X "Up in here" feel.
     But the lady had to take a bathroom break and I jumped into the living room to quickly pick some things to add to the shuffle.
     Me-"I added Outlaw Country to Pandora shuffle."
     Mar-"I should have never woke you this morning.".
     Me-"Mom brought me into the world and you into the day. Blame lies with you"
     She responded by What's The Story Morning Glory?ed this place and we both jump to one side and started singing.
     Music is a good thing.
     Mar almost died laughing when I said, "I had this on tape" when a AC/DC song came on.
     As we both did our things Pandora played Avril Lavigne, Black Sabbath, Kelly Clarkson, and Hank Williams among so many others.
     Voice from bathroom when Santeria came on, "DONT SKIP IT !"
     I love that lady.
     With appetizers of grilled tomato humus and crackers we went back to playing Scrabble.
     Me-"My letters suck. I have nothing but vowels, no continents."
     Mar-"Consonants hillbilly."
     Me-"Those too."
     More music of Maroon 5, Johnny Cash, Pearl Jam, and others.
     Mar got a Bingo to start a game with WHEATEN.
     "Wheaten!!!"
     After that I went back to the kitchen to finish dinner as Sherlock Holmes: Game Of Shadows played replaced the music but we continued to play Scrabble during the movie. By the end we had eaten eel sauce BBQ chicken, smashed potatoes, and corn on the cob.

     Tin Universe #12 The Tin Universe series that started it all...all being one novella, one novel, and about nine short stories, returns this month. And a plus it's free. Ever month you get free me to plug into your brain holes. 

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Under The Training Book: While Writing playing in the back ground was Undeclared Til Death



     I'm going to post on Wednesdays, for a while at least, about things I'm watching while writing on the day and post about it at night when my writing day is finished. I decided today while writing I would watch the first episodes of TV shows I haven't seen before randomly picked on Netflix, give brief comments after watching the episode, and then decided whether or not they will be added to my queue or not. This is something I've done a couple times before on my Twitter but as long as I'm posting daily this will be my Wednesday posting subject matter, things watched while writing.
     First up was Maron. I had enough of mockumentary around the time The Office came out and even though I like shows like Louie I'm tired now of the mockureallifementaries now. The first episode was ok. That's how I felt about Marc Maron's podcasts when I gave them a try. They were good, it was funny, but it seemed like it was leading down a path of just the same funny over and over.
     Next, Undeclared. So this was Judd Apatow's follow up to Freaks And Geeks. I loved Freaks And Geeks. That might make me automatically try more than a few episodes to test it out. So many name people were on this show. I think no matter what I think about episode one this is going into the old Netflix queue.
     Third up, Til Death. I don't think I'm old and bitter enough to start to believe the whole bullshit of older equals wiser which seems to be the premise of this show. Though I think the premise is a stupid one it would have worked better if the young couple had been really young, like around 21 years each. Maybe one had a rich parent so they could have the house and money but the neighbors become really parental figures to both of them. Otherwise you just have an adult couple and a younger adult couple and that stupid premise. I don't like the premise. I like Brad Garrett and I read that Kate Micucci appears in the 4th season and I like her in stuff but HOW DID THIS SHOW GET TO A 4TH SEASON.
     And last for the random first episodes is...was... tense scrambled without much sleep. Not that my tense skills are never sharp without a lot of editing. 10 Items Or Less almost put me to sleep in two minutes. I didn't even make it through the first episode so the episode even failed as background play for even one episode. The whole improvised dialogue thing only works if the people are really really good at it. Didn't work at all here.
     Not a great selection tonight. Only Undeclared made it to my queue and that has more to do with it being Apatow's show after Freaks And Geeks and having a lot of people in it that I like.
     To knock out a ton of straight line writing I watched a movie to end this writing session and the movie was Ghostbusters because I needed something I knew I would like so the bad wouldn't distract me but not something good that I hadn't seen so that wouldn't distract me either.
     Plus, I just love this movie.
     So good.
      Also side note, The Real Ghostbusters animated show, especially the first couple seasons, is one of the best animated shows ever if you ask me.
      It should be around 4am or something like that when I finish writing, maybe earlier if the sleeping pills kicked in.

     Tin Universe #12 The Tin Universe series that started it all...all being one novella, one novel, and about nine short stories, returns this month. And a plus it's free. Ever month you get free me to plug into your brain holes. 

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.


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Under The Training Book: New Merch is about epitaphs


      I love creating things that tell a story or hint at a story or make people feel uncomfortable or happy or uneasy or confused.
      Be it prose, drawing, painting, photography, digitally messing with images.. creating is a food to me. It's all about feeding something deep inside me that sometimes, most of the time the rest of the world can't approach. And sometimes these feedings are snacks and the snacks bits are what I want to post here on Tuesdays.
      With outlets like Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook I can dip my toes into thoughts about things without getting fully sucked in; which is a God send when I'm deep boots into something else like a book or story series.
      Something I Tweet or post on Facebook or Tumblr might later turn into a story or a book or as happens most of the time it leads me into an idea for a blog entry or a poster or drawing on the bedroom walls.
      On Tuesdays I want to start posting here small projects I've finished. Most of these will be stuff I've created for one of my Zazzle stores but from time to time there will poems and vignettes or maybe photos of felt projects which I've been into of late.
     I enjoy going through photos, creating images, and using small things I've written to create notebooks, posters, and the like hopefully that others will enjoy also. I also try to make things in my stores that I myself would like to own.
     So check back here on Tuesdays for something new. Todays release is a notebook design that came from a picture Mar took of me after a hard day at my old job at a restaurant after she had picked me up and all I wanted to do was get home and work on a story that was my at the time obsession. The little bit of writing was something I put on Facebook years ago after some really nasty emails which I had been getting from a former friend after we had severed ties.

     Tin Universe #12 The Tin Universe series that started it all...all being one novella, one novel, and about nine short stories, returns this month. And a plus it's free. Ever month you get free me to plug into your brain holes. 

     Someone is zombifying athletes at Clear Cut High School in Utah. Lucky the school has its own young superhero in the person of Mildred Betbeze to try and figure out what's going on. Pep rallies, cheerleaders, new kids in the neighborhood are just some of things our hero and her sidekick slash best friend Aisha have to deal with in the first book in Tin Universe's new middle grade series.

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