Super Size Me

I watched Super Size Me for the first time today. Probably not the best day to watch it, as I've been nauseated all day, but all the same... I watched it.

I'm happy to say I almost never eat McDonald's. The only McDonald's I do eat are their soft serves, and I have one of those every 6 months or so. Nom.

But I don't eat well. I don't eat veggies or fruits very often, mostly because I have some stomach problems that limit which F&V I can eat, so I tend to steer clear all together. But I should make an effort. Maybe I can't eat tomatoes, but I can eat all the other veggies. Maybe I can't eat citrus, but I can eat the other fruit. I'm that lazy, huh?

And since I started going to SJSU, I've started eating fast food more. They have a Burger King right by my classes. I succumb frequently, if I have money on hand (which is rare, actually).

Anyway, I am going to make a new goal. For the next 30 days I will not eat any fast food. The only places I will eat out at will be sit down restaurants, and my portions will be small. At home, I'm going to really push my family to keep fruits and veggies in stock. It's going to be hard for me, especially with my addiction to cake and chocolate muffins. But I can handle this.

Lift Off and Kazu Kibuishi

So my favorite living artist is providing a contest with 3 prints of some of his work. Including my favorite illustration by him that I have been lusting after for years. This blog entry is my entry to the contest--and I hope, more than anything, that I am one of the winners.

Ahem. *cough cough*

On January 9th of this year, Gallery Nucleus is starting a new show. It's called "Lift Off" and it will be full of work portraying various forms of flight! Artists from all mediums have created and invented their own contraptions for air-travel. Artists like:

Andrew R. Wright
Bill Carman

Christian Lorenz Scheurer

Daniel Dociu

Jake Parker

Jason Caffoe

Kazu Kibuishi

Khang Le

Myke Amend

Rick O'Brien

Robh Ruppel

Sarah Caterisano

Stephan Martiniere

Sterling Hundley

Tom Kidd

Trey Bryan

So, clearly, this will be an epic show. Beautiful and amazing. It makes me wish I lived close to Alhambra, CA. That's where the show will be, so if you live anywhere nearby, you should go. It will be on display until February 1st, so you have plenty of time!

A recap, in case you got bored and didn't make it through the post without your eyes glazing over:

-Sweet gallery show about flying things
-Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA is putting it on
-Amazing artists!
-January 9th-February 1st

For more information that I am probably not adequately conveying, follow this link:
http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/exhibition/218

Somehow, this slipped my mind

I forgot to publicly announce the start of my first, official, webcomic.

http://collide.smackjeeves.com/

You may or may not have seen the link for it around. But there it is. Officially. At this point it is 34 pages long. So few pages, and so far to go. So very, very far.

I' excited to do this! I love this story!

Resolutions

Well, it's the new year. I decided I should do some resolutions--I never really have before. This will be much more official, and I can come back at the end of the year and see what I did. All right, here we go.

-Continue Collide, without fail
-Move out of my parents house
-Sell art at a con
-Finish editing my manuscript
-Be a better friend (aka, hang out with peeps more--I'm such a recluse)

Yep. I'll probably be back to edit more later.

Christmas

I am making few appearances here, I know. Whatever.

Christmas was awesome this year. Mostly, I was excited to give my gifts to my family. It went like this.

Dad got a set of paintings of the ocean.
Mom got a hard to find book of BoM paintings.
Gordon got Halo: ODST
Brock got a bike
Laura got a pencil drawing of a scene from her book.
Karren got a book of Haikus written by her friends and family.
Stu got a bear with a little doctor's coat and stethoscope.

I was very happy to give them those presents, as most of them were a result of a long time of planning and careful execution.

I got some neat-o things too!
A camera and case
A playskool flashlight, with red/green light features
Leggings
Lots of gift cards
Candy!
Earrings
A lovely necklace

^__^ So, happy Christmas, all!

Applesauce?

Three people ask the same question (what's 2 divided by 3?) and get different answers.

No.

1/3.

Applesauce.

And each of their answers makes sense to them.

Concert and Interview

So last night I went to The Sounds' concert in San Francisco. I went mostly to see Shiny Toy Guns, though, as I had arranged to interview Jeremy (keyboardist) after their set. As a result, I missed most of The Sounds set. But it's okay, I interviewed Jeremy for 45 minutes.

It was fun and crazy and I recorded the entire interview on my phone. I've been transcribing for a while now, but it's only a few minutes into the interview. I have a lot more to do.

Once it's edited, I'll post a copy up here. :)