afrikprophet

Well its been a while and my life has changed considerably. 1. I left GW: it was getting a too hectic with not enough money coming in, so I left.
2. Temp agencies can suck, I've registered with a few agencies and haven't gotten anything, although that may be because of the timing. I know brilliant right :) but have no fear ...
3. I've started doing a bit of ebay bizness and plan on selling painted models online. I've actually made out pretty good over the past two weeks and its kept me from being totally broke over xmas. I'll post some pics soon.
4. I've made a resolution to listen to as much up beat music as possible. weather its stuff like the Go! Team, bouncy jungle or breakbeats. I need to work for my happiness as hard as I work on my minis. in short all is good and I am actually feeling good about things despite my less than spectacular circumstances, wait what am I saying My circumstances are great! I'm making money off of the skills I learned over the past year, I have a woman that loves me, I am keeping a roof over my head and I can go to work in my boxers!

BOH!

Man this has been a hell of a three week period. I thought I was going to have to borrow a crap load of money to make my rent. September was an awful month for tours, I only did about four for the whole month. I have been looking for other work on top of the tours but by and large things havent worked out (read sept. 19th and 21st posts).  Luckily I found another tutoring company that willlikely pay fo rmy fingerprinting and pay for the 10 hours of training. However thats not going to start for another two weeks at least.
In even better news October is looking like the busyist month for me tour wise in a while. I have 12 tours lined up. Most of them were booked over the past few days. So now I can pay my rent albeit late and in 2 parts, and not have to worry about hopping turnstyles to get to work. Also I can actually get around to cleaning my room, which I've been neglecting becasue of obbsessivly checking the job listings on craigslist and monster.com. So I am fiscaly stable for at least the next month or so YAY.
In other news
My folks came up for a day this weekend. My mom went to a Thesophical convention, just to hear the ideas. I got breakfast with them and my brother. They also brought my favorite painitng of my mom's up for me to keep. Its hanging over the dinning table in outr living room and looks really good.
Cristen's show went up this weekend also. It is a production of the musical Ragtime. Even though i am not a musical theater fan I loved it. After the opening Cris and soem friends of ours stayed up untill around 3am talking and listening to music and eating chinatexican.
Life can be good.... once the rent is paid.

now on to the cleaning!

ever have one of those weeks where you feel like you are being constantly kicked in the teeth both by others and yourself? Wellt hat kind of summs up how things are going for me right now. It seems that for everything that I plan, plot and work towards I either fuck it up or something else comes up that does more than negate the gains I had made but pushes me back even further. Yeah, I know one step forward two steps back but that isnt helping here. Its still a loss. Case in point, I am behind on some bills, I look for work in multiple places and venues all of them call back saying they want me to work with/for them then all of them either A. fall off the face of the earth or B. tell me I am not needed this week the night before I am slated to work.  And C. the source of income that was at least covering the rent- Touring, has dried up like a 3 week old onion this month. I didn't even get tiped on the last few tours I did, and they were damn good tours too. The only thing that is bearing any fruit is the amazon/ebay bookselling thing. Yeah three weeks ago I started slinging used books on Amazon. it takes almost that long to get paid and they take out (see last post) a good chunk but it seems to be a bigger/ more reliable market for individual books than ebay. I am starting to cross post some of the items I have over to ebay as well but I'm just so burnt right now that I can't even focus on ISBN numbers.

I had such a good weekend too. I got a suprise ticket to see Kenny Ken @ Direct Drive courtesy of my frineds CeeCee and Mikal aka Hired Gun. Kenny Ken KILLED IT several times over. I danced my ass off for agood five hours. There were several moments that could best be described as "Total anihilation of the Ego" To make it even better he gave me one of his records right off of the turntables, it was a white lable with a hard as nails remix of Sister Nancy's Bam Bam on it (in fact I'm going to put it on my turntable now, the one with the needle that didn't blow out on Sunday night) I was to say the least suprised and elated, but lukily I kept my head together and gave him a copy of The Bergen Sessions. After his set he said he would listen to my CD and tell me what he thinks, I hope he does.  It was one of the best nights out I had in a long time.

At least Ihave named my emotions for the day. Angry, frustrated and unhappy. At least I'm not depressed. just a bit tapped out at the moment.

is playing wishing on a star, I think only the vocals. I think its a good sign. Hearing those faint lines is like a dub accent to the sound of traffic and airplanes and early summer singing birds.The voice is made out of air and I love it.
There are som many versions and variations of this song floating thru the ether, I have always been partial to the jungle version by 88.3 with Lisa May on the vocals. I'll hunt down an online sample of it soon and post it.

OK so here is my mid year list of ideas and projects that I am working on. Hopefully some of these may lead to fortune, fame and glory.

1. I have started taking martial arts classess for free in Prospect park. The instructor is really cool, down to earth and practical. He also talks alot about the history of the form and its relation to others. We are learning the basics of the style right now, focusing on breathing, stances, using chi etc.  Status- going to class this evening :)

2. Have a huge idea for a RPG and novel/short story universe.  Belive it or not this all came from a dream I had about three days ago where supernatural creatures, werewolves, fey etc. were part of the normal every day experiance. they were in a way immigrant minorites. The setting of the game involves players being either humans or these formerly mythical creatures and trying to figure out how to deal with (or exploit) each other in a time where cosmic and magical forces are very, very real.  Status-working on setting and magic rules. I'm leaning more towards a freeform style a la Mage the Ascension. I want to avoid at all costs the Dungeons and Dragons Spell book syndrome. I think I may use Basic Fuzion as the core of the game untill I get around to writing up charachter generation rules and what not.

3. Revising "Denial" I am giving Denial another once over. Trying to add more texture and motivation of the narrator (again its not me and the apartment is not Cristens)

4. The Red weekly that was at Karma now tennitivly at Ripple. I don't know whats goign on here. I went there on wednesday to play but no one was there. Manager said he hadn't talked to the organizer and I was basically SOL. Luckily it was only about six blocks fromwhere I live but I was pretty pissed off. I still haven't heard from Joe V. so I don't know about this one.

5. CHAOS FRAME! I am amped for the show on thursday. soooo amped. I haven't been as interestedin making music on my own over the past yearor so. Since I started working with Will and Ben things are turning around. I'm hearing more possibilities in the air.

6. Sigil project- its still on the back burner. I think I am going to work on the RPG and short stroies more before I jump in to this because I want to play with the little ideas in the other works then bring them all together in this one. Kind of like what the writers of Art and Fear ment when they said "the small works lead to the great works."

oh if anyone knows how to add a paypal button to a LJ or myspace page let me know.