How's it going out there on this big beautiful blue green rock that we call home. It's been a while, but I'm gonna keep it short. Movies: The Soloist is slammin', Wolverine is way dope, Star Trek is out of this world. I was hoping for a little bit more from Next Day Air, but it was still OK. Television: Tu Spok on the Jimmy Fallon Show, the new Dane Cook shit on Comedy Central, and how Bruce Lee changed the World on the History Channel is sick! A couple more painting photos going up. This is what 21 hours of oil painting looks like.
More to come soon.

Got my bike put together so I'm putting up some pics, and there's also a few pics of the backs of my arms I've been meaning to put up. Added some other pics to my albums if you wanna check em out.

It's been a while so I figured it was time once again to get all wrapped up in another blog. My schedule changed and I'm back to being a night owl. Tough to do in Vegas and stay out of trouble, so I've been trying to keep myself busy doing the standard late night agoraphob stuff that keep a person from swirling down the dirty drain that is Sin City. Basically those things include late night movies, video games, and painting. The end of March and early April marked a couple of milestone anniversaries in my life. March 28, 2008 was the last time I puffed on the sticky green, big deal for an X pot head like myself. April 1, 2008 was the day I left the city I was born and raised in, and set out on my Las Vegas adventure. Things are still going great with work, and that's why I moved out here so..... SHAZAM! With all the year anniversaries and all, I decided to treat myself with a new toy. I'm the proud owner of a brand new shiny chrome low rider bicycle, dude... shit is SUPER PHAT! I just got it in the mail today and they forgot to ship one of the parts so it's still in a few pieces, but as soon as it's whole I'll put up some pics. The plan is to trunk it down to the strip, park my car, cruise around, take pics, and people watch. Fun, fun, fun! I also put up some pics of the painting I'm working on a couple weeks ago. I think I'm gonna put up a few pics every time there's some progress, kinda like watching it come to life. When I was home in January I promised my friend Baby J that we'd take some pictures and she could pick one, and I'd paint it for her. I also put up a pic of my first gray scale oil painting I did of my friend big Al, it's the only painting I brought with me so that's all I could really show. I went and saw the Sin City Roller girls tonight, and will go back next week for sure. I used to go see the roller derby back in San Antonio and loved it, so that's something I'll look forward to every week. I'm starting to firmly plant my feet here, and it feels good to finally feel like this place is becoming home.

Ok, enough about me. I always try to leave ya'll with some inspiring gems to check out if you wish. They do come highly recommended by me so I hope you enjoy. If not, don't blame me, variety is the spice of life. I'm a total hip hop junky, take note, I did not say I love rap. I'm talking late eighties to late nineties, before every song on the radio was about 22's, iced out watches, Moet, and being flashy to get pussy. Bombing walls made me more serious about my art, lyrics made me more serious about my writing, and I used to be a pretty bad ass breaker before I got chubby and old achy joints. So basically hip hop made me what I am today. If you have any interest in the hip hop scene you gotta check out Planet B Boy. It's a documentary about 5 breakin' crews from around the world that go to Germany to compete to be the crew of the year. I know what you're thinking, and this is not some teeny bopper dancing movie with a love story tied in. The shit is real, and it breathes, bleeds, and sweats the hip hop scene. If you're not into hip hop, or sub cultures in general this might not be for you.

Ok, the last one might not be for you, but this next one is a must see. It's called In Prison my Whole Life, it is also a documentary made by a British American kid in his twenties. It's about an activist/journalist named Mumia Abu-Jamal who was imprisoned the day this Britt kid was born, and it is flippin' awesome. Really, do yourself a favor! It's got interviews with people like Angela Davis, Noam Chompsky, and even Snoop. I'm not gonna ruin it by saying any more, just TRUST ME ON THIS ONE.

I've really gotta stop typing before I go off on something else, so peace out from Las Vegas until next time.

I refuse to waste my hard thought written words if they are not read! That's what my journal is for. I guess I've been going about this the wrong way, I mean... I don't read blogging by people I don't know. Sooooo, I guess I should put some shit out there about me so that you guys can get to know the man behind the clickity clacking of the key board. Sit back and relax and maybe you'll be interested in what I have to say. If not, then so be it.
I have lived in two places in my life. San Antonio, where I was born and lived until April Fool's Day of 08, and beautiful Las Vegas where I live today. I left for Vegas because all of my best friends were getting married and having babies and shit. I can't fault them for taking what society tells them is the next step in life, but as far as I'm concerned, what the fuck does society know? Don't get me wrong, all that shit may be for me one day, but it ain't today. I just think that there is so much out in the world to see, I'm gonna see as much as I can while I can. I guess I just got tired of my friends wives trying to hook me up with "a good girl." "Why don't you settle down?" "Don't you want a family?" "Aren't you lonely?" Let's see.... how can I put this? I'd rather be LONELY than start a FAMILY with a "GOOD GIRL" that I'm SETTLEING for. I'm not gonna settle for anything but the woman of my dreams, and I feel sorry for anyone who can't understand that.
Sorry. If you've read any of my previous blogs you understand that I tend to ramble on when I get passionate about something. Soooo, back to Vegas. It was Confucius who said, "A man who loves his job never has to work a day in his life." Well I wanted to test this theory so I thought to myself, "if I could have any job, realistically, what would it be?". So I left SA with my life savings, my car, my clothes, and my laptop and headed for Vegas. It took me seven weeks before I landed a job dealing poker on the strip in Vegas, which is what I knew I wanted to do. Let me just say one thing,"Confucius is my MUTHAFUCKA!" I've had a lot of jobs from umpiring little league to bar tending, but nothing compares to being a poker dealer. I sit around all day and listen to dudes tell dirty jokes and talk about sports, not to mention the fact that I make gggggrrrrrrip yo! Moving to Vegas was the best decision I've ever made, and now that I've seen the world outside of San Antonio and how great it is I wonder. What else is out there? Well I'm gonna find out. Now that I've got poker dealing experience on the Vegas strip, I can get hired anywhere in the WORLD that there is poker, and there is poker everywhere. So I'm gonna kick it in Vegas for a while and see where it takes me.
OK, so that's a bit about the last year. If there's anything else that you'd like to know feel free to ask. I don't make promises I can't keep, and I promise that if you read my blogs you will enjoy them. I can also promise that I'm pretty sure I'm not like most dudes on this site, meaning there's no pictures of my cock in my photos. I have a lot of things that I hope you'll find funny, interesting, enlightening, and just down right entertaining. I hope now that you've got to know me a bit and what I'm about, you'd like read what I have to say. I think I'm done, I feel like I'm starting to sound like a douche bag salesman trying to slang time shares or something. PEACE OUT!

Inspiration Wednesdays.... that's what this will be titled until/if I think of something better. Soooo.... now I just have to find something inspiring to do every week, shouldn't be too hard. This is exactly why I find it hard to write, because if you read the previous blog you know I'm a perfectionist. So now I find myself six hours away from a flight home to San Antonio trying to speed blog what I want to be some real heavy shit. I know more than likely I'm not going to be able to lay this down quite how I want it, but away we go!
This week I did something I've never done in my life. I'm a huge movie buff as you'll all find out in the future if you continue to read my blogs. This week I went to see the new Brad Pitt movie all alone, that doesn't make me gay does right? RHETORICAL! Anyway... "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is the most amazing fucking movie I've seen in a long time. I mean, WOW! It deals with some very important things: life, love, loss, people, death. Yes, death..... yes, important. Think about how many times you've said or thought," that's something I must do before the game of life is over." Without the knowledge we posses that someday we will be gone from this wonderful planet would we really," live life to it's fullest"? HMMMMMMMMMM!? I mean to me death is the ultimate motivator, and becoming more in touch with that fact has made me realize that every day/hour/minute/second counts. Of course that's not all the movie made me ponder, it also made me think about people close to me that I've lost. I would love to get into that, but who knows when that could end. I do find it hard to understand how such a meaningful movie has flown under the radar when so much bullshit cinema is shoved in our faces at every turn. SAD! When I get going I just can't stop, I've got a huge week ahead and I must sleep. I want to continue badly, but I must go until next week. I'm sure I'll lay in bed for at least 30 minutes wondering if I've forgotten to pack anything so that leaves only about five good hours of sleep. Until next time PEACE OUT from Las Vegas!

This is the first installment of your weekly enlightenment. I've been meaning to write in my blog for months, but due to my lack of inspiration and a combination of being too busy and too lazy have prevented it. I am also a perfectionist so it's hard for me to just jot down meaningless bullshit and call it a night. If I'm gonna take the time to write it's gonna mean something, at least to me. If someone else can find any of their emotions provoked all the better. So, you may be asking yourself was it inspiration or lack of laziness that has brought me to the clickity clacking of the key board this evening. Well kinda both, you see when I get inspired I get motivated. I just wish there were more things that inspired people in the world today. Anyway, I rented a movie tonight called Gonzo the life and work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. I enjoyed it mainly because this man was trying to make this world and our country the great place it should be through the written word, and it is a tragedy that he is no longer with us today. I'm sure he would have great insight into the current problems of the world today. We need more people like this to help steer our society off of it's current path of destruction and onto a moral highroad. I feel that we as people have so much more to give than war, violence, greed, and dread.
That being said I'm going to try to write at least a little something every week, and hopefully I can bring smiles , laughter, insight, and inspiration to at least one other person out there. However it will be hard because I'm not one to force my opinions and ideas down other peoples throats, so I will try not to. I'll just start slow with a little about myself and some of the things I've seen and done in my life. Then, if people actually read and would like to add or ask for my opinions I would be more than happy to entertain them with my views. I've always told the people close to me my whole life that I would change the world one day, and I still think it's true. So if you wanna join in and help, the more the merrier.

"If you're the kind pf person who thinks you can do anything you set your mind to, it seems a waste of time to think small."-Matt Porter-

Soooooo, I'm very excited! I accomplished one of the main goals I set for myself before moving to Las Vegas. You are reading the typed words of a professional poker dealer. I'm dealing a month long tournament event at the Golden Nugget from June 6th to July 7th. The first day is a celebrity event, I hope they let me take pictures. It's only temporary, but it's a step in the right direction. The money I make will keep me here a little longer. Hopefully long enough to find something a little more permanent. As soon as I can make some steady income it's time for the real reason for coming out here, MY DESTINY! If any one really cares, don't be shy. Just ask.

Sooooo, I moved to Las Vegas two weeks ago. Chasing a dream that's all. Always wanted to be a casino dealer in Las Vegas and I decided, better to try and fail than regret never trying at all. So here I find myself, in Sin City attending dealing school. It's kinda wierd being all alone with everything you know and love 1300 miles away, but liberating at the same time. Just another page in the book that is MY LIFE. Who knows what the next chapter will bring, not you, not me, not anyone. I just keep hope that eventually the book will have a happy ending. A friend of mine took me to see Into the Wild a couple of months ago and there is a line in that movie that realy hit home with me, and I take it to heart. " Happiness is nothing without someone to share it with," I'm starting to realize how true that realy is.

Hello blog readers, and how is everyone today? OK, so I already blog on myspace. Sooooooo, I don't know how often this is gonna go down because I don't want to get carried away. Honestly for all I know I'm waisting my time cuz no one will read this. Do I care? No. I mean, I write in my journal almost daily and no one reads that. So as I clickity clack away on this keyboard I wonder what can I put down that will change the way even just one person thinks. Well I do know this, good people are a dying breed so if you're one of us, don't give in to the darkside. Reach out for others and try to unite and make good people babies, and we'll take this motha back. Hope is alive within me and within others so let's do this damn thing!

So I'll post questions from time to time as well. If you know the answers to any of them please fill me in.

1. Why do people sway when they're hugging someone they realy care about?
2. What is the plural of Bigfoot?

Tah Tah for now!