Reading:
Where Bigfoot Walks ~ Robert Michael Pyle
Latest Movie: Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones Despite the cheesy title (for obvious reasons, clowns figured heavily into my thinking), it rocked! That Yoda could move.
Sheesh ~ what a dry spell. I haven't uploaded any entries in over a month and the ones that got written were so lame ~ but you already know that if you've read them. I have been working on some ideas for drawings and (hopefully, if those damn gits in Nashville get their asses in gear and put a budget together so I can go to school ~ but that's another entry) starting Monday, I'll stay after class to work on them. I just don't have the set up to work on large drawings here.
The first one deals with monsters. I prefer that everyone draw their own conclusions about my drawings but since I don't have a scanner and the camera still isn't hooked up, I'll just explain the thinking behind it. Everyone has their monsters, in the form of fear, jealousy, anger ~ you name it. So this drawing will be as if you're standing outside a house (representing the body), in front of a bed of herbs and wildflowers (the face you present to the world) and looking into a window (representing the eyes ~ the 'windows of the soul.') There are all these critters clamoring at the window, mostly bizarre and some even a little cute but way in the back, standing in the darkness, there is this one. He definitely isn't cute or even bizarre. He is downright scary.
It occurs to me that I may be telling a little too much about myself with this drawing...which is why I did away with the shutters (or as I originally wrote when this idea came to me ~ shudders) and make the house brick. I wonder what it says since most of the monsters are male? Hee. Despite trying to convince myself otherwise ~ to the right people, I probably am an open book. Just don't let me know if I am. I don't need another illusion popped right now. Maybe later.
I downloaded my mail a little while ago and found a pleasant surprise. Well, maybe pleasant isn't quite the right word. 'Interesting' may be more apropros. Anyway, this person sent me an email, talking about his view of the world (quite Matrix~like with all the talk about 99.9999999% of people on earth being unaware that society has made them basically into automatons.) Evidently, he sees himself and one other person he has met as the only autocephalous folks (Hee! This D&R Educational Moment is brought to you by the letter Q.) on the planet. If I wanted to know more, there was a puzzle at the end to solve if I wanted to find the website. I won't post the email, since I don't have permission (and it explictly said that all emails to that addy would be ignored) and I won't post the puzzle ~ why spoil the hunt for anyone else? It's usually the most exciting part of the game.
So guys ~ you've got my attention. I'll admit that I don't know if I buy your (glocken? oo ~ baaad pun) spiel about how the world works. There is one bit that really bothers me ~ the paragraph where you say that 'Those who join us must see every other person occupying this planet as the enemy, and us as their only allies.' Sorry, but every cult and several major religions out there have said the exact same thing. (oooo ~ I am going to get it for that statement!) If you truly have no arbitrary wants, needs, desires or preferences, as your email stated, then why the need and preference for enemies and allies? It occurs to me that if you buy into the enemy/ally thing, you're still buying into, in part, the 'simulation' you claim to no longer be a part of.
Of course, it also occurred to me that all of this could just be a fantastic joke or game. That's fine with me. I'll play along for a while, as long as it amuses me. If it's for real and there is a website, I'll find it and then we'll see what happens from there. Like I said, the hunt is usually the most exciting part of the game and I never could resist a puzzle.
This wolf is on the trail. I'll find you, if for no other reason than to solve the puzzle. Of course, I know well what happened when the puzzle was solved in Hellraiser...hehehehe.
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So much for the puzzle. Thirteen tries and I found the website. Two seconds on the site and it was very clear that I would be considered 'an enemy.' What these two do is email folks at random, have them puzzle out their little website addy (which I am not putting up here, I'll let them keep their little game) and then go on to talk about how non-emotional and uber logical they are (did I just say uber?) They also had three forms they want folks to fill out so that they could post them on the website and talk about how illogical the responses are.
The message had to arrive here randomly. They clearly didn't read much, if any, of this website when they sent me the message or else they'd know just how opposed to logic I can be!
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Just a note: I did a small thing outside tonight to thank someone once again for a great (illuminating!) chat this afternoon. I asked a small astral hummingbird to carry my message ~ and as it 'took off' from my hand, the leaves rustled above me. When will I learn that it may not all be in my head? Hehehehe
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