you are never alone folks, don't forget that.

It's been a while!

I just got back from Hawaii, looking much less of the sick white that comes with winter. I had a lot of good times and tons of good food. Fell in love with a dark rum made on Maui and that is huge since i generally don't like alcohol.

saw a bunch of turtles and manta rays (first time I've seen them in person). Met a lot of good people and i am pretty sure i will move to Hawaii in the next few years, as a life without socks is the life for me!


aloha and mahalo

saw "Where The Wild Things Are" and i enjoyed it. A very emotional movie if you grew up with the book, but i do wonder how much kids would enjoy it? i would hope they would like it and a lot of kids these days will likely identify with it.

Also picked up the complete Bone collection and have been devouring it over the last week, an awesome adventure!

paintings are also going well, and my redesign of my website is coming together. i also set up an online store at Cafepress, let's hope the money starts rolling in!

less than a month until i'm in Hawaii and two months until going back to the Netherlands!

all is well!

Finally started two new paintings that i've been dying to get going with, and they look good so far!

Winter is descending on the city, and i need reasons to get out of my home...but those seem far and few between these days.

excuse me whilst i twiddle my thumbs and wait for paint to dry,

aarrgghh....just finished prepairing a few canvases, now i must wait a week for them to dry...


tck, tck, tck....

Finished a painting today, after working on it for a month i was glad to be done and it turned out rather well.

all that is left to do is varnish the bastard...

hope you are having a good night.

Punk Rock Bingo, fun and creepy at the same time...what's up with people these days?

Do not go by revelation;
Do not go by tradition;
Do not go by hearsay;
Do not go on the authority of sacred texts;
Do not go on the grounds of pure logic;
Do not go by a view that seems rational;
Do not go by reflecting on mere appearances;
Do not go along with a considered view because you agree with it;
Do not go along on the grounds that the person is competent;
Do not go along because [thinking] 'the recluse is our teacher'.

when you yourselves know: 'These things are unwholesome, these things are blameworthy; these things are censured by the wise; and when undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill, abandon them...
, when you know for yourselves: These are wholesome; these things are not blameworthy; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness, having undertaken them, abide in them.

- Buddha, Kalama Sutra

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder[er] is less to fear."- - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fight the power, by not being the power. Only by changing ourselves and our interactions with society will any real change come about. A fascists greatest fear is the gathering of the civilian population, they fear communication of information and the power that gives the poorest of human beings.So keeping talking, because some are listening.