Gen-eral Thoughts.

Right now I am supposed to be writing a paper about Richard Serra's Drawing Retrospective but as I am earning a double major in Procrastination, I am writing this instead.

Just some "Gen"eral Thoughts I had over the last couple of hours....

1) The Dream Act. Children are stuck with their parents decision to come to the US illegally. Why should they be punished for that? If you are a stellar student, shouldn't you be given a chance to be a productive member of society (who pays taxes) as a college grad or member of the armed services, rather than being a maid/laborer paid under the table? Srsly!

To Qualify: I would like to say that on some things I am quite liberal and in other respects quite conservative. I don't like either party and think that most politicians are very silly. I'm also very close to the immigration issue with most of my family having come from Guatemala.

2) Is it wrong that my leather Jacket cost more than my wedding dress? The idea that a wedding dress is the most expensive piece of clothing you will ever wear is ridiculous. I want my most expensive piece of clothing to be the one that I will wear every day.

To Qualify: We had a small budget for SF though pretty standard for the rest of the country. However we could afford to have this budget. If I only had 300 for a wedding, I would have had a BBQ in the park. Just Saying.

3) I have so little time left to get everything done for school and work, yet I waste time doing unproductive things (like this blog that no one will read). I sometimes wish I were a machine that just did things like a Ford assembly line. That is the way I was taught I should be, but is that really the best thing? Just a thought.

I can't think of anything else so its back to my essay.

Fashion!

This morning I read this interview with Helena Bonham Carter in my People Magazine RSS feed. (Yes, I read People. You wanna make something of it?!?)

The King’s Speech star — andOscar nominee for Best Supporting Actress — Helena Bonham Carter is the first to admit she’s made a few fashion mistakes on the red carpet but that’s not stopping her from dressing up in non-traditional styles. “Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong,” Bonham Carter, 44, tells PEOPLE. “But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won’t crumble.” Known for her eclectic fashion choices, Bonham Carter raised a few eyebrows by attending theGolden Globe Awards wearing one red and one green shoe simply because she wanted to. “Why not wear mismatching shoes? Who says we can’t? I was just having fun,” says Bonham Carter. “For me, fashion is all about fantasy and putting unlikely things together. That’s what I love. I genuinely love dressing up.” One person Bonham Carter praises is Lady Gaga for her daring fashion choices. “I love the way she dresses. She’s like a work of art,” she says. “Anybody who is inventive, different or has fun like her, I love and admire. I’m amazed that she’s able to stand up in some of those shoes she wears.” When asked what it’s like to be compared to the “Bad Romance” singer, Bonham Carter demurs, saying “I feel honored to be compared to her but I would probably be called Lady Haha. She’s fantastic.” So what can we expect on the red carpet at the Kodak Theatre come Feb. 27? “Maybe I will wear the exact same [Vivienne Westwood] dress I wore at the Golden Globes but with matching shoes,” she says with a big laugh. “Or put the shoes on my head!” – Paul Chi

Bonham-Carter is always dubbed the worst dressed, as is Tilda Swinton, but these people are some of the few who take chances with their fashion. You often see everyone wearing the same thing over and over again. Fashion is a means of self expression, a way to tell the world who you are (not who your stylist is).

Those are my two cents anyways.

Random link

http://www.arteaser.com/2010/11/artists-as-curators-two-shows-lots-of.html

Just a quick link from the art show I participated in at Bar Basic. They don't mention me by name, but then again, I'm an art nobody at this point. But that is Monkeynova and myself blurred out on the last picture.

yes there is a maymontt.com, Virginia....

With all this attention being paid to my drawings, I decided it might be a good idea to have a website of some sort. With me not being as html savvy as I would like, I decided to hire google to do my web pages. All in all, it didn't turn out too badly, I think. Maybe a little 1999 but, oh well.

There is a gallery slideshow, which is kinda cool, so visitors can see what I do. There's also a little blurb about me. Hopefully I don't sound too full of myself.

Maybe one day, I'll ask my mom to make me a real site, so I can be a real artist... but this should hold me through community college and maybe part way through art school, at least.

Check it out: www.maymontt.com

art shows

It looks like two pieces of my art are going up for sale.

The first has been donated to raise money for Rainforest

Action Network, to help stop rainforest deforestation. Its being entered in a silent auction, so hopefully *fingers crossed* it will sell and make some money for the cause.

The second is a show at a bar all about the 90's. They've told me I'm in but I've yet to actually drop off the piece for hanging. It should run from October through February. I will post the dates and info later.

Its very exciting. I hardly know what to do with myself!

commentary

So today I get this email saying I have a new comment on my blog. Now looking back at the last posting done almost 8 months ago, you can see I don't really do much writing in this blog anymore (Twitter is my new lord and master.)

The comment was regarding a blog post where I posted an essay I did for my English 1a class, Geek Love.

I thought the whole comment rather odd seeing that

1) it was nobody I knew

2) it was regarding something long since past (2007)

3) it was making a personal mockery of me

So this is a brief response to the person who made the comment, who will never see it, and probably is getting exactly what they wanted in the response from me:

i was very proud of going back to school and getting tested into the highest engllish class possible. while i know that what I wrote wasnt grammatically correct nor spellingly correct thw whole way through i very happy with the result of my essay, so suck it you fucking cowardly bastard!

I got an A on that paper and in that class. I don't know how I could possibly do better than that.

Thank You.

Comic Con International 2009

The checker at Trader Joe's asked me casually, "So did you do anything interesting this weekend?"

"I just got back from Comic Con, " I answered.

He looked at me a bit funny and then we had a pleasant conversation of what I saw. So this is the recap of two days of comics, movies, and mayhem. Well, maybe... not really.

We arrived at the San Diego Convention center what I considered early, maybe around 9. I started getting flashbacks of three years ago when we weren't able to get in, but Monkeynova kept reassuring me that we'd get in. But you have to realize why I was so concerned: the line snaked around the building, through the parking lot and down the marina along the water. I kid you not that the line was a mile long. We waited for almost two hours just but did get our passes. No one got heatstroke this time, which was fortunate.

Once on the convention floor, we we inundated by all the wondrous things. There were so many that I cannot recount them all now, but you can see the pictures. Monkeynova and I both went around taking pictures off all the cool booth things. Though really my favorite pictures were those of Bruce Campbell at the Burn Notice Signing and Adam Baldwin ( aka Jayne Cobb) at another booth. For both, I tried really hard to get good pictures. I made a miraculous shot of Bruce, where I had the camera up high, and just took the shot. The picture came out perfectly. For Adam, all I got were some fuzzy pictures. I had to come back later to take more and finally got one, even though its kind of silly.

We ended up meeting our friends, who we normally stay with while in San Diego, and we got to wander the floor with them, which was very cool. At the end of the day, Mongolian BBQ was had. Afterwards there were drinks at The Field with my cousin, while Monkeynova and our friend, had an all engrossing brain dump.

On Friday, I tried dressing up, but it didn't feel right so I changed midway through the day. We totally expected the con floor to be crazy and we were right. I usually like to wander the con and then do the algorithmic pattern to make sure I didn't miss anything. This year due to the sheer quantity of people, that was impossible. We spent and hour looking at about 4 isles. Just because you had to fight your way through.

The crowds were just too much after a while, so we went to have lunch at the SyFy booth. Yep, you heard me right. This channel's marketing coup was renting out one of the Hard Rock's restaurants and turning it into Cafe Diem from the show Eureka. They had flat screens inside showing previews from all the SyFy shows and cut outs off all the characters so you could take pictures with your favorites. And to tell the truth, the food wasn't half bad either. Lastly, we got to see Joe Morton, the actor who plays Henry on Eureka, and I thanked him for a great show. Monkeynova was a bit star struck. It was awesome!

We tried to see some panels but only got into one. The Big Bang Theory Panel and the misfortune of being in the same room as the Dollhouse/Joss Whedon Panel so people were lining up 6 hours early and filled the line to the point that the officials weren't letting anyone else join it. Needless to say we and many others who really wanted to see that panel weren't let in. I do wish they'd empty the rooms between panels. I think it be a fairer system, but hey what do I know?

We did get to see the Eureka Panel which was awesome, especially when they called the actor who plays Jack Carter in Bulgaria on the SyFy VP's iphone. And yay they will have a next season!

Friday was also my shopping day. I got the next Mouseguard graphic novel, a super awesome book, which I heard about through one of my favorite podcasts, To Old to Grow Up. At another booth, they were selling all graphic novels for 50% off cover price so I got some more books that I'd wanted. Finally I got the GI JOE graphic novel. I heard that the new series was good and wanted to check it out. It was the last one they had. Score!

Due to getting our passes late, like in April (wtf?!), we were only able to get tickets to Thursday and Friday, though I wish we could have stayed longer. I wanted to see the masquerade and the Eisners, but there just wasn't enough time. Fortunately for us, we got next year's four day passes already.